Mises Daily
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Lord Acton
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of imperial power if it loosened the hold on Atlantic colonies. Therefore, the policy of the hour was to enforce the existing claims and to obtain unequivocal who were a failing and discredited party, there were men who already knew the policy by which since then the empire has been reared — Adam Smith, Dean Tucker, of economists.” It was a new phase of political history. The American Revolution innovated upon the English Revolution, as the English Revolution innovated on the