Supports both the geography and assembly Zettels.
The section combines enforcement strategy with a contemporary legal boundary between dissent and force.
Excise resistance was frontier-wide, but western Pennsylvania was close and accessible enough to serve as a federal test case; Attorney General Edmund Randolph separately defended citizens' rights to assemble and remonstrate while distinguishing them from obstruction.
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Excise resistance was frontier-wide, but western Pennsylvania was close and accessible enough to serve as a federal test case; Attorney General Edmund Randolph separately defended citizens' rights to assemble and remonstrate while distinguishing them from obstruction.
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Reader location: printed pp. 119–122, Chapter 7
Internal PDF provenance: sheets 126–129
The section combines enforcement strategy with a contemporary legal boundary between dissent and force.
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Supports both the geography and assembly Zettels.
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Paraphrase checked against searchable text and rendered PDF sheets 126–129 on 2026-08-27.