Power to tax : Analytical foundations of a fiscal constitution
1980, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #379128
ISBN: 0521233291
Physical description : xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes : Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index.
English. Contents : Preface -- Introduction -- ch. 1. English tyranny versus American liberty : bearing arms in revolutionary America -- ch. 2. A well regulated militia : the origins of the Second Amendment -- ch. 3. "The true palladium of liberty" : Federalists, Jeffersonians, and the Second Amendment -- ch. 4. Militias, mobs, and murder : testing the limits of the right to bear arms -- ch. 5. Rights, regulations, revolution : the antebellum debate over guns -- ch. 6. Individual or collective right : the Fourteenth Amendment and the origins of the modern gun debate -- Conclusion : A new paradigm for the Second Amendment -- Notes -- Index. Subjects : Taxes. Taxation United States. Fiscal policy United States. USA.
Price: €75.00