John Taylor of Caroline

New Views of the Constitution John Taylor of Caroline Reprint edition

Originally published: Washington City: Printed for the Author, 1823.

"Taylor and myself have rarely, if ever, differed in any political principle of importance."-- Thomas Jefferson.

Reprint of the uncommon first and only edition. Taylor was a champion of local democracy and one of the first and clearest spokesmen of the states rights, agrarian school. This was the fourth and last of Taylor's books on the United States Constitution, in which he expounds his philosophy of government. Known as John Taylor of Caroline [1753-1824] and for his strong advocacy of agrarian states rights, his alignment with Thomas Jefferson and his commitment to a strict construction of the Constitution, Taylor fought in the Revolutionary War and served briefly in the Virginia House of Delegates before he became a Senator from Virginia. Taylor was the author of Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated, A Defence of the Measures of the Administration of Thomas Jefferson, attributed to "Curtius", An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States and other works.