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No and, to an extent, I think we may have been talking past each other originally. Having been reading more upon the issue the past year and conversing with Kaminski more, I feel better qualified to respond now. This, however, must be rejected. Not only did Congress force the issue with State...

For one, I emailed Kaminski directly and am awaiting some more replies because I'm picking his thoughts. I'll share them verbatim if he gives me permission. The bolded is entirely the goal I have in mind, basically.

I still hold to my original position, currently doing more research on that as time permits, but one idea I had lately was an earlier end to the ARW via a decisive victory at the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse. The debts aren't as bad, so the economic conditions in New England aren't either as a...

So the idea of reform came out of the ether? If it's not the issues Kaminski cites-which was the basis of the Annapolis Convention mind you-nor the rebellion, it springing out of nothing is the only conclusion that can be drawn and I don't find that to be a convincing argument for getting the...

If the other factors don't make much of a difference, you have to explain why the Annapolis Convention was convened before Shay's Rebellion became a national issue. You then have to further consider the timing of events; the attempted seizure of the Federal Arsenal-the most violent stage of the...

Professor Kaminski doesn't dismiss Shay's Rebellion, but the timing of it means it cannot be labeled as the instigator of the Constitutional process: As described by the book Decision in Philadelphia, Shays’ Rebellion “hung like a shadow over the old Congress, and gave both impetus and urgency...

Professor John P. Kaminski is one of the leading Constitutional Scholars in the United States, having founded the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as co-edited thirty-five volumes of The Documentary...