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Independence Day 2023

by Andrew P. Napolitano

“Which is better -- to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?” -- Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788)

Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle -- Cotton Mather -- addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can long survive in a democracy.

Byles was a loyalist, who, along with about one-third of the American adult. . .

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