Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584774274
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations: Number IV
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584774274
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The Acts of the General Assembly of the State of North-Carolina Passed During the Sessions Held in the Years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794
Author: North CarolinaThe People and Their Peace
Author: Laura F. EdwardsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal hierarchies. Ordinary people, rather than legal professionals and political leaders, were central to its workings. Those without rights--even slaves--had influence within the system because of their positions of subordination, not in spite of them. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were not specifically granted individual rights, including women, African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal inequalities, giving them new life within state law with implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, The People and Their Peace recasts traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of inequality--particularly slavery--in the face of expanding democracy.
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations: Eighteenth century business corporations in the United States
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Press of North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Stephen Beauregard WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Income Tax in Common Law Jurisdictions: Volume 1, From the Origins to 1820
Author: Peter HarrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139461206
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book was first published in 2006. Many common law countries inherited British income tax rules. Whether the inheritance was direct or indirect, the rationale and origins of some of the central rules seem almost lost in history. Commonly, they are simply explained as being of British origin without more, but even in Britain the origins of some of these rules are less than clear. This book traces the roots of the income tax and its precursors in Britain and in its former colonies to 1820. Harris focuses on four issues that are central to common law income taxes and which are of particular current relevance: the capital/revenue distinction, the taxation of corporations, taxation on both a source and residence basis, and the schedular approach to taxation. He uses an historical perspective to make observations about the future direction of income tax in the modern world.