they establish a power of congress to assess what they call exercises imposts and duties on the public. duties on the public. one of the whiskey. if you are one of my forefathers hanging out in western pennsylvania which was really the frontier of that time, this was someone in washington saying you have to pay tax and it didn't feel like what they had fought for which was everybody gets a say. it's like the king is coming back and that we have this tax. >> so, if you came into the area to beat a tax collector, you can have your tax office vandalized and one of the worst things that could happen to you is you could be tarred andas feathered it took george washington himself to quell thech rebels.