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Taxes on Knowledge in America : Exactions on the Press from Colonial Times to the Present /
In Taxes on Knowledge in America, Randall P. Bezanson explores the extent to which the publication and distribution of current public information is effected by economic exactions. The book begins with a brief overview of the English history and experience with knowledge taxes, before turning to a d...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Knowledge Taxes in England; Early Methods of Press Control; The Taxes on Knowledge; The English Heritage; 2. Knowledge Taxes from the Colonial Period Through Ratification of the First Amendment; The Pre-Revolutionary Experience; Ratification of the First Amendment; Conclusion; 3. Federal Knowledge Taxes in Nineteenth-Century America; The Federal Advertising Tax, 1862-67; The Federal Paper Tax; Conclusion; 4. State and Municipal Knowledge Taxes in Nineteenth-Century America; Knowledge Taxes in Virginia; Knowledge Taxes in Texas
- Knowledge Taxes in MassachusettsKnowledge Taxes in Illinois; 5. Knowledge Taxes in Nineteenth-Century America: Observations at the End of the Print Era; 6. Knowledge Taxes in Twentieth-Century America; The Dawn of a New Age of Technology; Sales and Use Taxation to Mid-Century; State Knowledge Taxation in a Changing Environment: The Massachusetts and Illinois Experiences; The Illinois and Massachusetts Experiences: Reflections at the Dawn of a New Era; 7. Beyond the Traditional Setting: Knowledge Taxation in New Environments; Some Preliminary and General Considerations
- Taxation of Broadcast and CableTaxation of Telecommunication and Computer Technology; Looking Forward; 8. The Postal System; Introduction; A Concise History of the Postal System and the Rates of Postage; Postal Rates and the Taxation of Knowledge; 9. Developing Doctrine in the Supreme Court: Some Lessons from History; Knowledge Taxes and Freedom of the Press: The Minneapolis Star & Tribune Case; Knowledge Taxation Revisited in a Larger Framework: Leathers v. Medlock; Knowledge Taxation and the Constitution: Minneapolis Star, Ragland, Leathers, and Beyond; 10. The Perspectives of History
- Selected BibliographyTable of Cases; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; R; S; T; U; V; W