Rothbard: The Free-Market and Antigovernment Roots of the American Revolution - LewRockwell

Rothbard: The Free-Market and Antigovernment Roots of the American Revolution - LewRockwell: Historians have long debated the precise causes of the American Revolution: Were they constitutional, economic, political, or ideological? We now realize that, being libertarians, the revolutionaries saw no conflict between moral and political rights on the one hand and economic freedom on the other. On the contrary, they perceived civil and moral liberty, political independence, and the freedom to trade and produce as all part of one unblemished system, what Adam Smith was to call, in the same year that the Declaration of Independence was written, the “obvious and simple system of natural liberty.” The libertarian creed emerged from the … Continue reading →