Originally published in 1814, this is a reprint of the Yale
University Press 1950 edition with an introduction by Roy Franklin
Nichols. 562 pp. Taylor wrote this important work in 1814 as a
reply to John Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of Government of
the United States of America. Unlike Adams, he rejects the concept
of "a natural aristocracy" of "paper and patronage" and a federal
government based on a system of debt and taxes. He considers the
American government to be one of divided powers responsible to the
sovereign people alone. Opposed to the extent of power awarded to
the executive office, he calls for shorter terms for the president
and all elected officers. Charles Beard said this work "deserves to
rank among the two or three really historic contributions to
political science which have been produced in the United States."
JOHN TAYLOR 1753-1824] was known as "John Taylor of Caroline
County, Virginia." He served in the Continental Army and later in
the Virginia House of Delegates, then served three terms as a
member of the United States Senate. He is considered to be one of
the nation's greatest philosophers of agrarian liberalism. He was
one of the nation's first proponents of states' rights. His works
include New Views of the Constitution of the United States (1823),
Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated (1820) and A
Defence of the Measures of the Administration of Thomas Jefferson.
By Curtius (1804), an argument in favor of the achievements of the
first Jefferson administration.
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