• happybadger [he/him]
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      22 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

      The American Revolution was a bourgeois one which didn't benefit the yeoman farmer. This working class one sparked up immediately when the federal government was still very weak and trying to tax a subsistence commodity. The leaders were pardoned to prevent a larger rebellion from breaking out over their execution. Prior to that the pardon power was supposed to be an act of congress.