Per Bowdoin’s piece, it is stated that the state of Massachusetts further worsened the financial state, “The debt of Massachusetts alone, was $5,000,000, and taxation of course heavy. The number of debtors was so great, that in 1782 the legislature had been reduced to resort to the empirical expedient of an Act, requiring creditors to receive, in payment for their debts, cattle and other specific articles of property, tendered by the debtors.” Again a reflection of the failure of competency, common folk are losing their cattle and property in order to pay for the debts. Logic would state and eventually occurred that if the United States had a strong federal government, and was argued for during the Constitutional Convention, the Federal government could absorb the debts of the states, thereby spreading the cost to many from few. The Rebellion itself had provided yet even more reasons for stronger federal…