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The scion of one of colonial Virginia's most respected families, JOHN TAYLOR (1753-1824) served as an officer in the Continental army and the Virginia militia during the American Revolution. A successful lawyer and gentleman farmer, he was an advocate of scientific farming, and was the first president of the Virginia Agricultural Society. He served in the Virginia state legislature in the 1780s and 1790s and as U.S. Senator for the state through much of the early 19th century.
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Astonishing foresight.,
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Once upon a time, educated Americans could be presumed to be familiar with the writings of the Greeks and, especially, the Romans. This familiarity prepared them for republican citizenship in a way that today's smorgasbord approach to post-secondary education manifestly does not prepare contemporary Americans. Read _Tyranny Unmasked_ for evidence of the first of these assertions: John Taylor of Caroline, self-consciously provincial Virginia planter, foresaw the following 150 years' course in America with great clarity, and he lamented it the whole way. This is a great book by one of America's all-time great political thinkers.
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John Taylor of Caroline's " Tyranny Unmasked" is a brilliant analysis of enonomic and political economy in the early 1820's. Taylor points out the injustice and folly of protective tariffs and their effects. He astutely shows how by " protecting" an industry from competition you effectively raise the price of the product and foster a government- business alliance destructive of liberty. He shows how financial interests use tariffs to unfairly gain advantage over other competitors and also how theyattain dominence over the representatives of the people through their influence. Taylor recommends a Jeffersonian ideal of free trade, low taxes, and an abolition of protective tariffs. Overall a great Jeffersonian read.
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John Taylor was a member of the House of Representatives from Virgina. He also wrote "New Views of the Constitution" in 1823 which is a thorough but difficult read (Tayor was an attorney and writes like one). Taylor witnessed trends in the national government that were moving towards weakening the Constitution of states rights and self-determination into the Whig desire for power and centralization that would benefit the northern industrialialists. A Virginian born into the values of Jeffersonian Democracy, his writings forewarned of the coming of what became the Republican party, it's centralized grasp for power, empire building and the loss of personal freedoms subjected to the centralized government and their favored corporations. I wish I could have read such quality volumes in my high school history classes instead of the revisionist history that perpetuated the mythology of the centralized government.
This volume is well worth the read. It is my experience that most of the population will not understand what you learn from them, nor be interested in the conflict that it will awaken within them.
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Good maxims are often worshiped with pretended devotion, and clothed with the splendours of eloquence, when their subversion is meditated; like white heifers whose horns were tipped with gold, and adorned with ribbons, preparatory to their being sacrificed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestick commerce, animating currency, domestick restrictions, domestick monopoly, high legislative wages, foreign fabricks, pecuniary balance, future cheapness, efficient bounty, consolidated republic, masterly policy, theoretical liberty, fraudulent laws, factory monopoly, actual tyranny, protecting duties, useless surplus, factory capitalists, transferring policy, overflowing treasury, foreign restrictions, controlling consumptions, commercial restrictions, exchanging property, excise system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Good maxims are often worshiped with pretended devotion, and clothed with the splendours of eloquence, when their subversion is meditated; like white heifers whose horns were tipped with gold, and adorned with ribbons, preparatory to their being sacrificed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestick commerce, animating currency, domestick restrictions, domestick monopoly, high legislative wages, foreign fabricks, pecuniary balance, future cheapness, efficient bounty, consolidated republic, masterly policy, theoretical liberty, fraudulent laws, factory monopoly, actual tyranny, protecting duties, useless surplus, factory capitalists, transferring policy, overflowing treasury, foreign restrictions, controlling consumptions, commercial restrictions, exchanging property, excise system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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