Use to avoid reducing the rebellion to generic hostility toward taxation; corroborate statutory details with primary legal sources.
Mitenbuler situates the Whiskey Rebellion within unequal tax administration, western liquidity constraints, and federal state-building.
Large urban distillers could be taxed by measured output, while many country distillers were assessed on assumed full still capacity and had to pay in scarce cash. The design favored commercial scale and made frontier resistance both economic and constitutional.
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Evidence
Large urban distillers could be taxed by measured output, while many country distillers were assessed on assumed full still capacity and had to pay in scarce cash. The design favored commercial scale and made frontier resistance both economic and constitutional.
Locator
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Start: 37
End: 41
Source section: Chapter Two — Rye and Revolution
Context
Mitenbuler situates the Whiskey Rebellion within unequal tax administration, western liquidity constraints, and federal state-building.
Annotation
Use to avoid reducing the rebellion to generic hostility toward taxation; corroborate statutory details with primary legal sources.
Verification
Status: Verified
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheets 37–41. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.