Species of Property
The American Property-Tax Uniformity Clauses Reconsidered
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4844571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin L Einhorn (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 974-1008 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002205070104205x |
| OpenAlex | W2161010464 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 27 |
Economic historians have traced the origin of the uniform property tax in the United States to the insertion of uniformity clauses into state constitutions in the Northwest and to efforts to tax commercial wealth. This article shows that the tax was created by legislation in the Northeast and that the first constitutional clauses were adopted in the South to protect slaveholders. It is time for historians of the U.S. political economy to abandon the dated paradigms of the "progressive history" tradition
Direct tax · Economics · Law and economics · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Property tax · State (computer science) · Tax reform · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2021 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |