Abstract

This study explains how War Secretary Knox and northwest Governor Arther St. Clare insisted on strengthening regular troops to Congress during the war against the Indians in the Northwest territories from 1790 to 1794. A military act passed in 1792 and 1794 gave the president the power to operate the U.S. military and laid the basis for criminalizing the military activities of civilians. The bill allowed the president of Washington to lead a large army inside the United States to suppress the whiskey rebellion in Western Pennsylvania in 1794. This meant that the Washington administration had the right to make decisions against domestic and foreign enemies. The whiskey rebellion is a very important event that has been in the process of strengthening the authority of the federal government since the enactment of the Federal Constitution.

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