Construction Construed Constitutions Vindicated by Taylor John Caroline (3 results)

ISBN-13: 9781584779681; ISBN-10: 1584779683. An Important Southern Voice in the Political Debates That Followed the War of 1812 Taylor, John. Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated. Originally published: Richmond: printed by Shepherd & Pollard, 1820. iv, 344 pp. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779681; ISBN-10: 1584779683. Paperback. New. $26.95 * 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. 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 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.

ISBN-13: 9781886363434; ISBN-10: 1886363439. An Important Southern Voice In the Political Debates That Followed the War of 1812 Taylor, John. Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated. Originally published: Richmond: printed by Shepherd & Pollard, 1820. iv, 344 pp. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363434; ISBN-10: 1886363439. Hardcover. New. $65.00 * 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. 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 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.

An important work by America's great proponent of agrarian liberalism. Taylor was an important Constitutional theorist and states' rights advocate. He believed the greatest danger to American democracy lay in consolidation and in the creation of an aristocracy of "paper and patronage." This work is one of several in which Taylor sets forth his theory of the U.S. Constitution and related federal government policies (e.g. taxation, banking, and tariffs). It is also one of his rarest works, far harder to find than his NEW VIEWS OF THE CONSTITUTION, TYRANNY UNMASKED, or others. HOWES T59, "aa." SABIN 94486. HAYNES 18132. DAB XVIII, pp.331-33. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Text somewhat tanned and dampstained. Overall good to very good.