John Joachim Zubly: PART 1, A Patriot Minister Whose Cause Was Lost
byMaurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), a French philosopher, once said that the definition of a traitor was “a patriot whose cause was lost.” In the time…
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The Revolutionary Language and Behavior of the Whiskey Rebels
byThe image of a nation united in the aftermath of the American Revolution, content with hard-fought for and hard-won independence, is largely a grade…
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Hylton v. U.S. and Alexander Hamilton’s Defense of Congressional Taxing Authority
byIn 1796 Daniel Hylton, a wealthy Virginian farmer, brought a suit before the United States Supreme Court arguing that a federal tax on carriages…
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The East India Company and Parliament’s “Fateful Decision” of 1767
byIndia, the fabled land of rubies, diamonds, gold, tigers, and mystery, captured the imagination of the British people in the mid 1700s. Robert Clive…
The Exception to “No Taxation Without Representation”
by“I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence.”— John Adams[1] A one penny per…
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“That Damned Absurd Word Liberty:” Les Habitants, the Quebec Act, and American Revolutionary Ideology, 1774–1776
byThe American invasion of Quebec of 1775-1776 failed to achieve its primary objective: to bring into the fold what the Continental Congress referred to…
The Sugar Act: A Brief History
byThe Sugar Act of 1764 levied taxes on imports to British colonies in North America. In doing so, the act marked a change in…
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Alcohol to Zealotry: The Revolution A to Z (Part 2)
byContinued from yesterday. Read A to Z first. M is for mobilization. Revolutionary authorities became masters of mobilizing resources at a local level to…
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Alcohol to Zealotry: The Revolution A to Z (Part 1)
byOne of the great ideals of the American Revolution was the notion that political authority derives from the will of the governed. Of the…
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Tax Day and the Founders
byMyth: The framers were anti-tax, and it is no accident they failed to provide for income taxes in the Constitution. Busted: “No taxation without…