Mises Wire
Author:
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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[Adapted from the foreword to Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791 . ] What aroused the fears of those who sought through the Constitution to establish a strong national government? In part, the nationalists were afraid of tax resistance. Rothbard details the key libertarian uprising in Massachusetts, Shays’ Rebellion, a