M & D tangential

[Mark Kohut]

from a Boston Review essay:

John Lauritz Larson, in a recent presidential address to the Society
for Historians of the Early American Republic, notes a couple of
important similarities between the political theories and the economic
theories of America's revolutionary era. Both sets of ideas demanded
that the king's government get off people's backs, especially by
stopping its interference in commerce. And both sets of ideas
asserted, based 18th-century "scientific" analysis, that state rule
distorted the God- or Providence- or Nature-given order of things.
Men, advocates argued, were naturally equal and self-governing;
similarly, markets were naturally productive and self-governing.
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