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Ken Kesey

I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Ken Kesey, as quoted in Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test (1968), Chapter One.

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On September 26, 1786, protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts, beginning a military standoff and ushering in Shays’ Rebellion.

This anti-tax revolt spurred a dramatic reaction on the part of the day’s politicians, including their attempts to reform the Articles of Confederation and to figure out better ways than high state taxes to pay off Revolutionary War debts. These efforts directly led to the adoption of a new Constitution.

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