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The Rhetoric Of The Anti-Progressive Income Tax Movement: A Typical Male Reaction, Marjorie E. Kornhauser Dec 1987

The Rhetoric Of The Anti-Progressive Income Tax Movement: A Typical Male Reaction, Marjorie E. Kornhauser

Michigan Law Review

This article examines the arguments against progressivity and the supporting philosophic premises behind the mask of rhetoric. It neither treats exhaustively nor demolishes the legitimacy of the arguments or the underlying philosophy. Part I briefly summarizes the major arguments against progressivity. Part II examines the economic argument, its underlying assumptions, and its limitations. Part III examines the neoconservative philosophy which underlies the justification for a flat tax and contrasts it with an alternative feminist vision of people and society, which provides strong justification for progressive taxation.

Part IV concludes that there is a strong case for progressive taxation based not …


Suing The Press: Libel, The Media, And Power, Michael L. Chidester May 1987

Suing The Press: Libel, The Media, And Power, Michael L. Chidester

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Suing the Press: Libel, the Media, and Power by Rodney A. Smolla


Sociobiology And The Law: The Biology Of Altruism In The Courtroom Of The Future, Charles F. Weiss May 1987

Sociobiology And The Law: The Biology Of Altruism In The Courtroom Of The Future, Charles F. Weiss

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Sociobiology and the Law: The Biology of Altruism in the Courtroom of the Future by John H. Beckstrom


Law, Society, And Reception: The Vision Of Alan Watson, M. H. Hoeflich May 1987

Law, Society, And Reception: The Vision Of Alan Watson, M. H. Hoeflich

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Evolution of Law by Alan Watson


Women And The Law Of Property In Early America, David H. Bromfield May 1987

Women And The Law Of Property In Early America, David H. Bromfield

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Women and the Law of Property in Early America by Marylynn Salmon


Tolerance Theory And The First Amendment, James L. Oakes May 1987

Tolerance Theory And The First Amendment, James L. Oakes

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Tolerant Society: Free Speech and Extremist Speech in America by Lee C. Bollinger


When Honesty Is "Simply…Impractical" For The Supreme Court: How The Constitution Came To Require Busing For School Racial Balance, Lino A. Graglia May 1987

When Honesty Is "Simply…Impractical" For The Supreme Court: How The Constitution Came To Require Busing For School Racial Balance, Lino A. Graglia

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Swann's Way: The School Busing Case and the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz


Where They Are Now: The Story Of The Women Of Harvard Law 1974, Lissa M. Cinat May 1987

Where They Are Now: The Story Of The Women Of Harvard Law 1974, Lissa M. Cinat

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Where They Are Now: The Story of the Women of Harvard Law 1974 by Jill Abramson and Barbara Franklin


The Very Idea Of "Law And Literature", John D. Ayer May 1987

The Very Idea Of "Law And Literature", John D. Ayer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction by Richard Weisberg