Front Page Authors (by Period) John Taylor

John Taylor

1753 - 1824

About the Author

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.

In The Library:

• author: Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (1820)
• author: An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814)
• author: Tyranny Unmasked (1822)

Quotations:

• 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) (6 September, 2004)