“The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”

About Tench Coxe

Political Economist • American

Tench Coxe was an influential American political economist and delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress. He was a leading proponent of industrialization and economic nationalism in the early United States,...