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Taylor was born on December 19, 1753 in Caroline County, Virginia, the son of James Taylor and Ann Pollard.
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An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (Dodo Press)
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John Taylor 1753 1824 was a politician and writer He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the United States Senate He was the author of several books on politics and agriculture He was a Jeffersonian Democrat and his works provided inspiration to the later state s rights and libertarian movements Taylor wrote in defense of slavery and called for the deportation of free African Americans He criticized Thomas Jefferson s ambivalence towards slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia Amongst his other works are An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States 1814 Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated 1820 Tyranny Unmasked 1821 and New Views on the Constitution 1823
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An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures.
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Title: An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Author: John Taylor Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP01076700 CollectionID: CTRG93-B1146 PublicationDate: 17940101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: On the first Bank of the United States and other financial measures. Collation: iv, 92 p. ; 23 cm
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A Defence of the Measures of the Administration of Thomas Jefferson
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A definition of parties; or The political effects of the paper system considered. Philadelphia, April 5th, 1794.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W030741 Attributed to John Taylor by Evans. Philadelphia : Printed by Francis Bailey, no. 116, High-Street, M,DCC,XCIV. 1794. 16p. ; 8°
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Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated
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Taylor, John. Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated. Richmond: printed by Shepherd & Pollard, 1820. iv, 344pp. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-968-1. ISBN-10: 1-58477-968-3. Paperback. $21.50. * One of the major works of the Virginian John Taylor of Caroline 1753-1824. Little-known today, Taylor's work is of great significance in the political and intellectual history of the South and is essential for understanding the constitutional theories that Southerners asserted to justify secession in 1861. Taylor fought in the Continental army during the American Revolution and served briefly in the Virginia House of Delegates and as a U.S. Senator. It was as a writer on constitutional, political, and agricultural questions, however, that Taylor gained prominence. He joined with Thomas Jefferson and other agrarian advocates of states' rights and a strict construction of the Constitution in the political battles of the 1790s. His first published writings argued against Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's financial program. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated was Taylor's response to a series of post-War of 1812 developments including John Marshall's Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, the widespread issuance of paper money by banks, proposals for a protective tariff, and the attempt to bar slavery from Missouri. Along with many other Southerners, Taylor feared that these and other measures following in the train of Hamilton's financial system, were undermining the foundations of American republicanism. He saw them as the attempt of an "artificial capitalist sect" to corrupt the virtue of the American people and upset the proper constitutional balance between state and federal authority in favor of a centralized national government. Taylor wrote, "If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments." Jefferson, who noted that "Col. Taylor and myself have rarely, if ever, differed in any political principle of importance," considered Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated "the most logical retraction of our governments to the original and true principles of the Constitution creating them, which has appeared since the adoption of the instrument." Later Southern thinkers, notably John C. Calhoun, were clearly indebted to Taylor. Sabin, A Dictionary of Books Relating to America 94486. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 6333.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was a politician and writer. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1779-1781, 1783-1785, 1796-1800) and in the United States Senate (1792-1794, 1803, 1822-1824).
Education
Taylor attended William and Mary College (1770-1772) and began practice law in 1774.
Career
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Taylor joined the Virginia militia and then the Continental Army. He soon became a major. When the Continental Army was reduced in 1779, he resigned and returned home. His legal practice prospered during the next 10 years, and building on his wife's properties, he acquired a number of plantations. By 1792 Taylor was able to devote all of his time to his two major interests: scientific agriculture and public office. From 1779 to 1785 and again from 1796 to 1800, Taylor sat in the Virginia House of Delegates. He served as a U. S. senator in 1792-1794, 1803, and 1822-1824. He early allied himself with the emerging Jeffersonian Republican party. During the 1790s he strongly opposed the financial program of Alexander Hamilton. Toward the end of the decade Taylor introduced James Madison's famous resolutions condemning the Alien and Sedition Acts in the Virginia Assembly. In 1800 he worked enthusiastically for Thomas Jefferson's election. By about 1808, however, Taylor had become disillusioned with Jefferson's administration, accusing it of abandoning its original principles of agrarianism and states' rights. During Madison's two terms as president, Taylor moved even more sharply into opposition, speaking out vigorously against the War of 1812 and its centralizing consequences-the increased national debt, tax program, and expanded armed forces. Much of Taylor's lasting significance rests with his published writings. Unsystematic and tedious, they nonetheless offer a cogent criticism of Hamiltonian Federalist policies and a defense of the South's agrarian, states'-rights philosophy. Among his most important publications are An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814) and Constructions Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (1820). Linked with these were his Arator essays (1803), suggesting agricultural reforms necessary for southern equality in the struggle against northern interests. He died on August 21, 1824, at his plantation home, Hazelwood, in Virginia.
Achievements
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Taylor, American politician and political theorist, was a major spokesman for southern agrarian, planter society. He wrote several books on politics and agriculture. He was a Jeffersonian Republican and his works provided inspiration to the later states' rights and libertarian movements.
Works
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An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (Dodo Press)
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A definition of parties; or The political effects of the paper system considered. Philadelphia, April 5th, 1794.
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An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures.
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A Defence of the Measures of the Administration of Thomas Jefferson
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Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated
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An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (Dodo Press)
Connections
In 1783 Taylor married Lucy Penn, the daughter of a wealthy North Carolina planter.
- Father:
- James Taylor
- Mother:
- Ann Pollard
- Spouse:
- Lucy Penn
- Friend:
- Thomas Jefferson
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Political Party
Democratic-Republican Party
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United States Senator