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Taxes, The Tea Party, and The Whiskey Rebellion: Part Two

So: the excise tax is duly passed in 1791, in exact accordance with the rules laid down in the brand-spanking new US […]


The A Team: Washington And Hamilton

George Washington and Alexander Hamilton get no respect. Sure, one is on on the dollar bill, and the other is on the […]


We The (Contentious) People

If Fox News had been around during the debate on the Constitution – the original debate, that is, in the late 1780’s […]


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