1753 - 1824

Nationality:
American

Historical Period:
The 19th Century

Groups

• Jeffersonian Republicans

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.

Titles:

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

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)
• John Taylor on how a republic can “fleece its citizens” just as well as a monarchy (1822)
• John Taylor and the rhetoric of liberty and tyranny (1814)

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