John Taylor

1753 - 1824

Titles on this disk:

• author: Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
• author: An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States
• author: Tyranny Unmasked

Quotation:

• (6 September, 2004) John Taylor on how a “sound freedom of property” can destroy the threat to Liberty posed by “an adoration of military fame” and oppressive governments (1820)

About this person:

John Taylor, of Caroline County Virginia, was the preeminent theorist of Jeffersonian Old Republicanism. He was a strong advocate of individual and states rights in the face of the growing power of the federal government (“tyranny”) and opposed increased tariffs and mercantilist economic policy.