Two hundred twenty-five years ago this week Thomas Jefferson wrote to his more conservative friend, James Madison: “I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world.”
The 1787 rebellion Jefferson referred to occurred in Massachusetts and came to be called Shays’ Rebellion.
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