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Conservative historian Adam Tate (1998) argues that Taylor believed that the government of the United States was the best yet formed, but he argued that the nation suffered from an overpowerful president and Supreme Court and from finance capitalism and its paper money system. Taylor, a modern rather than a classical Republican, believed that an agrarian society was best. To protect farmers, he advocated easy taxation and improved farming techniques, and he opposed protective tariffs and government-subsidized internal improvements. He urged farmers to form an agricultural party to defend their economic interests. At the end of his life, Taylor invoked states' rights as a way to save Southern farmers from capitalist tyranny.  

Conservative historian Adam Tate (1998) argues that Taylor believed that the government of the United States was the best yet formed, but he argued that the nation suffered from an overpowerful president and Supreme Court and from finance capitalism and its paper money system. Taylor, a modern rather than a classical Republican, believed that an agrarian society was best. To protect farmers, he advocated easy taxation and improved farming techniques, and he opposed protective tariffs and government-subsidized internal improvements. He urged farmers to form an agricultural party to defend their economic interests. At the end of his life, Taylor invoked states' rights as a way to save Southern farmers from capitalist tyranny.  

However, Lenner (1997) argues that Taylor has been misinterpreted by historians as a strict constructionist, states' rights Southerner, and virulent Jeffersonian Republican. In fact, he went beyond mainstream Republican thought in his suspicion of federalism and his belief that the new federal republic was merely a collection of independent states, all with the duties and rights of independent nation-states which had merely collected themselves into a voluntary league of nations. Ruled by the "Law of Nations," Taylor's federal republic was neither a mainstream Federalist or mainstream republican society, but a third alternative of American political thought in the antebellum period.  

However, Lenner (1997) argues that Taylor has been misinterpreted by historians as a strict constructionist, states' rights Southerner, and virulent Jeffersonian Republican. In fact, he went beyond mainstream Republican thought in his suspicion of federalism and his belief that the new federal republic was merely a collection of independent states, all with the duties and rights of independent nation-states which had merely collected themselves into a voluntary league of nations. Ruled by the "Law of Nations," Taylor's federal republic was neither a mainstream Federalist or mainstream republican society, but a third alternative of American political thought in the antebellum period.  

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Bailor, Keith M. "John Taylor of Caroline: Continuity, Change, and Discontinuity in Virginia's Sentiments toward Slavery, 1790-1820," ''Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 75, No. 3 (Jul., 1967), pp. 290–304 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4247322 in JSTOR]

* Bailor, Keith M. "John Taylor of Caroline: Continuity, Change, and Discontinuity in Virginia's Sentiments toward Slavery, 1790-1820," ''Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 75, No. 3 (Jul., 1967), pp. 290–304 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4247322 in JSTOR]

* Tate, Adam L. "John Taylor and the Formation of an American Ideology." ''Continuity'' 1998 (22): 55-76. 0277-1446 by a conservative historian

* Tate, Adam L. "John Taylor and the Formation of an American Ideology." ''Continuity'' 1998 (22): 55-76. 0277-1446 by a conservative historian

* Tate, Adam L. ''Conservatism and southern intellectuals, 1789-1861: liberty, tradition, and the good society'' (2005) [https://books.google.com/books?id=oB23DhuvZykC&printsec=frontcover excerpt and text search]

* Tate, Adam L. ''Conservatism and southern intellectuals, 1789-1861: liberty, tradition, and the good society'' (2005) [https://books.google.com/books?id=oB23DhuvZykC&printsec=frontcover excerpt and text search]

===Primary sources===

===Primary sources===

* Taylor, John. ''Arator, Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political: In Sixty-Four Numbers.'' (1813) [https://books.google.com/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2&dq=%22+John+Taylor+of+Caroline%22+inauthor:John+inauthor:Taylor&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=3 online original edition]; new edition ed. by M. E. Bradford, Liberty Fund, 1977. 394 pp.

* Taylor, John. ''Arator, Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political: In Sixty-Four Numbers.'' (1813) [https://books.google.com/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2&dq=%22+John+Taylor+of+Caroline%22+inauthor:John+inauthor:Taylor&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=3 online original edition]; new edition ed. by M. E. Bradford, Liberty Fund, 1977. 394 pp.

* Taylor, John. ''An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States.'' (1814) [https://books.google.com/books?id=VBITAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:policy+inauthor:John+inauthor:Taylor&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=1 online edition]

* Taylor, John. ''An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States.'' (1814) [https://books.google.com/books?id=VBITAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:policy+inauthor:John+inauthor:Taylor&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=1 online edition]

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