An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States

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An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States is an 1814 political treatise by John Taylor of Caroline that offers a states’ rights, agrarian, and anti-Federalist critique of the U.S. Constitution and federal power.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
non-fiction work
political treatise
advocates agrarian republicanism
decentralization of political power
limited federal government
sovereignty of the states
associatedWith Jeffersonian republicanism
surface form: Jeffersonian political tradition

Jeffersonian republicanism
surface form: Old Republicanism
author John Taylor of Caroline
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizes United States Constitution
surface form: U.S. Constitution

consolidated national government
federal power
era post-Founding era of the United States
genre political philosophy
political theory
hasPerspective anti-Hamiltonian
anti-nationalist
pro-agrarian
pro-states’ rights
historicalPeriod early American Republic
intendedAudience American political readers and policymakers
language English
mainSubject United States Constitution
agrarianism
United States government
surface form: federal government of the United States

republicanism
states’ rights
notableFor comprehensive attack on federal consolidation
influence on later states’ rights and nullification arguments
systematic states’ rights critique of the U.S. Constitution
placeInAuthorOeuvre major theoretical work of John Taylor of Caroline
politicalPosition agrarian
anti-Federalist
states’ rights
strict constructionist
publicationCentury 19th century
publicationYear 1814
topic constitutional interpretation
dangers of centralized power
political economy of the early United States
relationship between federal and state governments in the United States
workOf John Taylor of Caroline

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John Taylor notableWork An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States
subject surface form: John Taylor of Caroline