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What would you think if I told you that America’s banner-waver of the American Revolution – often described as a “tax revolt” – was actually a tax collector? Well, I don’t have to allege it, because it’s true. As I point out in my new book, Thomas Paine: A Lifetime of Radicalism, the future penman experimented with several commercial pursuits in England as a young man.
A Review of Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 How is it that America became a “strong but limited” government, and the world’s richest and most free country? And what has happened since? That is the central question both considered and answered by Luigi Marco Bassani in his new work, Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865.
The Federal Reserve is the engine that drives the biggest, most powerful government in the history of the world. We can trace the origins of this modern central bank back to the creation of the First Bank of the United States, even before ratification of the Bill of Rights. Even then, it was built on dubious constitutional justifications, but it wasn’t created without a fight.
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