Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion most directly demonstrated:
- Acheck_circle
The federal government's willingness and ability to enforce its laws
- B
The futility of taxing alcohol in any region
- C
The weakness of the new Constitution in suppressing dissent
- D
Congressional supremacy over the executive branch
Explanation
Unlike Shays's Rebellion under the Articles, the federal government raised an army and quashed the uprising, showing that the Constitution gave the union real coercive power.