The tea party overlooks the fact that the colonists were revolting against English CORPORATIONS (corporations were invented to exploit the colonies). English laws forced the colonies to buy nearly everything into the hands of foreign companies. The English built country houses packed with gold and silver furnishings. The Tea Party, which is corporate sponsored and corporate controlled and largely full of the affluent people who don't work, with PR provided by the corporate media is much more the sort of person who would have wanted Madison hung for threatening the corporate status quo.