We all know the slogan "No taxation without representation," but what if the American Revolution wasn't just a political dispute, but a violent economic divorce? This episode argues that the Founders weren't just fighting a king; they were fighting an entire economic system called Mercantilism. We trace the story from a furious smuggler's riot on the Boston docks to a calm philosophical dinner in Scotland, showing how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the economic declaration of independence that empowered the political one.