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Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Volume II
The Authority To Tax
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About this book
John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin PressYear
2013Print ISBN
9780299112943, 9780299112905eBook ISBN
9780299112936Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Constitutional Imperative
- Chapter 2: The Other Taxes
- Chapter 3: The Internal-External Criterion
- Chapter 4: The Trade Regulation Criterion
- Chapter 5: The Second Original Contract
- Chapter 6: The Imperial Contract
- Chapter 7: The Commercial Contract
- Chapter 8: The Taxation-Legislation Dichotomy
- Chapter 9: The Defense of Charter
- Chapter 10: The Doctrine of Consent to Taxation
- Chapter 11: The Status of the Doctrine
- Chapter 12: Theory of Precedent
- Chapter 13: Historical Aspects of the Doctrine
- Chapter 14: The Authority of Analogy
- Chapter 15: Precedents for Taxation
- Chapter 16: Doctrine of Custom
- Chapter 17: Issue of the Sugar Act
- Chapter 18: Issue of the Stamp Act
- Chapter 19: Issue of the Townshend Duties
- Chapter 20: Issue of the Tea Act
- Chapter 21: Proposed Constitutional Solutions
- Chapter 22: The Administration's Solution
- Chapter 23: The British Perspective
- Chapter 24: The American Perspective
- Chapter 25: The Shared Perspective
- Chapter 26: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Short Titles
- Notes
- Index