In late 1786, George Washington wrote
the following: "It is but the other day that we were shedding our blood to
obtain the Constitutions under which we now live—Constitutions of our own
choice and making—and now we are unsheathing the sword to overturn
them. "
To what Constitutions is Washington referring? What event is he referencing
when he talks about "unsheathing the sword"?