John Taylor (1753-1824) was a politician and writer. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the United States Senate. He was the author of several books on politics and agriculture. He was a Jeffersonian Democrat and his works provided inspiration to the later state"s rights and libertarian movements. Taylor wrote in defense of slavery and called for the deportation of free African Americans. He criticized Thomas Jefferson"s ambivalence towards slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia. Amongst his other works are An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814), Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (1820), Tyranny Unmasked (1821) and New Views on the Constitution (1823).