Showing posts with label Shays' Rebellion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shays' Rebellion. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2016

TGIF: Conceived in Tyranny

If the American Revolution was in some large measure a tax rebellion, we should appreciate the bitter irony that the U.S. Constitution was in some large measure a reaction to a tax rebellion. It's another reason we can reasonably view the move toward the Constitution -- toward, that is, the concentration of power in a national government -- as a counter-revolution and something for libertarians to abhor.