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Cover of The Emergence of a National Economy The United States from Independence to the Civil War

The Emergence of a National Economy: The United States from Independence to the Civil War

Edited by Malcolm Rutherford; Marianne Johnson; William J. Barber

  • Published: 2010
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781851967506
  • Set ISBN: 9781851967506

Set Contents

Creating a National System of Taxation

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
  • A Circular Letter from the Congress of the United States of America to Their Constituents (1779) By John Jay
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      Overview
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      A Circular Letter, &c.
  • A Sixth Essay on Free Trade and Finance (1783) By Pelatiah Webster
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      Overview
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      A Sixth Essay on Free Trade and Finance;
  • The Dangers of our National Prosperity (1785) By Samuel Wales
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      Overview
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      The Dangers of our national prosperity; and the Way to avoid them: A Sermon
  • Letters To George Richards Minot And To Christopher Gore By Fisher Ames
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      Overview
    • Letters
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        Letter to George Richards Minot ([1789] 1854)
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        Excerpt of a Letter to George Richards Minot ([1790] 1854)
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        Letter to Christopher Gore ([1797] 1854)
  • ‘Speech on Mr. Madison’s Resolutions’ ([1794] 1854) By Fisher Ames
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      Overview
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      Speech
  • Fourteen Experiments on Agriculture (1791) By George Logan
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      Overview
    • Letters
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        Letter I
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        Letter II
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        Letter III
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        Letter IV
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        Letter V
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        Letter VI
  • A Short History of the Nature and Consequences of Excise Laws (1795) By James Thomson Callender
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      Overview
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      A Short History of the Nature and Consequences of Excise Laws
  • National Arithmetics (1786) By James Swan
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      Overview
    • National Arithmetics
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        II
        What labour is profitable, and what unprofitable to the State
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        III
        Some kind of taxes, Send to increase the wealth in the State: others to decrease it
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        IV
        A heavy duty or prohibition proposed, against the importation of such articles, as are, or may be raised and manufactured, in the State
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        VI
        Estimate of the Continental debt, and expences of the federal government: Massachusetts’ proportion of these: The private debt of the Commonwealth, and the annual amount of the civil list, our consequent burthens from them. The established revenue of the State computed
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        VII
        New funds of revenue proposed, little burthensome to the people, and amply sufficient to discharge in a few years, the principal and interest of the Continental and State debt
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        VIII
        Specie, being the spring to public and private exertion, means proposed to increase its quantity
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        That in order to arrange, regulate, and properly maintain the resources and revenues of the Commonwealth, financier or commissioners, or agents of finance, including in them, a Comptroller-General—are necessary. Easy means proposed to discharge their salaries
  • 'A Plea For The Poor' ([1793] 1922) By John Woolman
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      Overview
    • A Plea for The Poor
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        Chapter I
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        Chapter II
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        Chapter III
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        Chapter IV
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        Chapter V
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        Chapter VI
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        Chapter VII
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        Chapter VIII
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        Chapter IX
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        Chapter X
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        Chapter XI
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        Chapter XII
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        Chapter XIII
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        Chapter XIV
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        Chapter XV
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        Chapter XVI
  • Agrarian Justice Opposed To Agrarian Law And To Agrarian Monopoly (1797) By Thomas Paine
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      Overview
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      Agrarian Justice,
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    Back Matter