The sources of A Protest Against Law-Taxes

1. Magna Charta Framers of Magna Charta (English statute, 13th century) 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

   ch. 1 2 passages anchored here · ch. 2

   Magna Charta is directly named and its principle stated as authoritative in p-95ba3a.

   Justice shall be denied to no man, justice shall be sold to no man, says the first of statutes, Magna Charta.

2. Adam Smith 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 2 2 passages anchored here

   Wealth of Nations is named directly as the source through which the Davenant figure is reported.

   The average expenditure of an English subject, infants and adults, rich as well as poor, taken together, has been computed by Davenant (as quoted on this occasion somewhere by Adam Smith) at 8l.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

ch. 1 8 sources

Argument on legal expense as the price of liberty and justice · Computation of national/subject income · Legal maxim on the presumption of innocence · Parliamentary saying on tax criticism · Pauline epistle (New Testament) · Reported doctrine on statutes contrary to Magna Charta · Statutes imposing tax on pardons (5. W. c. 21. § 3; 9 and 10. W. c. 25. § 3, 50) · unnamed lawyers' maxim

ch. 2 5 sources

Coronation Oath · Interest of Great Britain with regard to her colonies · Roman law · Schieffer on Costs · unspecified work by Davenant