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March 29, 2010

Bring on the Tea Parties!

Myron Magnet, City Journal

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Modern Sex: Liberation and Its DiscontentsEdited with an Introduction by Myron Magnet

The Tea Party movement is a healthy reminder that the United States began as a tax revolt. From the 1765 Stamp Act Congress, when the American colonists first called their representatives together to declare their “undoubted right . . . that no taxes be imposed on them, but with their own consent,” to the Boston Tea Party eight years later, when the Sons of Liberty dumped a shipload of tea into the harbor rather than accept Britain’s right to tax that normally soothing commodity, the...

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