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Inhibiting Intrastate Inequalities: A Congressional Approach To Ensuring Equal Opportunity To Finance Public Education, Joshua Arocho
Inhibiting Intrastate Inequalities: A Congressional Approach To Ensuring Equal Opportunity To Finance Public Education, Joshua Arocho
Michigan Law Review
What is the purpose of the international law on armed conflict, and why would opponents bent on destroying each other’s capabilities commit to and obey rules designed to limit their choice of targets, weapons, and tactics? Traditionally, answers to this question have been offered on the one hand by moralists who regard the law as being inspired by morality and on the other by realists who explain this branch of law on the basis of reciprocity. Neither side’s answers withstand close scrutiny. In this Article, we develop an alternative explanation that is based on the principal–agent model of domestic governance. …
Constitutional Law-Commerce Clause-State Taxation Of Interstate Commerce, Theodore J. St. Antoine S.Ed.
Constitutional Law-Commerce Clause-State Taxation Of Interstate Commerce, Theodore J. St. Antoine S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Appellant express company, a Delaware corporation, did only interstate business within the state of Virginia. Virginia levied a state tax on intangible personal property and money owned by express companies doing business within the state, and set off their real estate and tangible personal property for local levies. In addition to the property tax, the Virginia statute provided for an "annual license tax . . . for the privilege of doing business in this State." The tax was "equal to two and three-twentieths per centum upon the gross receipts . . . earned in this State on business passing through, …