Table of Contents

[1] The authority of rights -- [2] The authority to tax -- [3] The authority legislate -- [4] The authority of law.

About the Author

John Phillip Reid is the Russell D. Niles Professor of Law at New York University. His books include Policing the Elephant: Crime and Social Behavior on the Overland Trail as well as the abridged one-volume edition of Constitutional History of the American Revolution based on this four-volume work.