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Why is Government So Small in America?
Author(s) -
STEINMO SVEN
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.46
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1468-0491
pISSN - 0952-1895
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0491.1995.tb00213.x
Subject(s) - legislature , impartiality , apportionment , temptation , political science , vetting , federalist , government (linguistics) , law , law and economics , economics , politics , linguistics , philosophy , psychology , social psychology
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act, in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling, with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved in their pocket (James Madison, Federalist 10).