Continental army officers attempting to form the Society of the Cincinnati

a. were brought to trial for trying to sabotage the civil government.
b. were ridiculed for their lordly pretensions.
c. were trying to force the Congress to pay them their pensions.
d. reflected the Revolutionary War generation's spirit of equality.
e. represented the best of the officer corps.


b

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