Who authored the "Taxpayers Bill of Rights?"?
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..."it is also the product of hard work, and courageous effort by numerous people and organizations."...
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The Anti-Federalist papers aren't really papers but are a collection of circulars, speeches and pamphlets mostly written by Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton (most under pen names). They were written in oposition to ratification of the Consitution on the grounds that the document did not protect individual rights sufficiently and provided for a central government that would become too powerful. The Bill of Rights was adopted to address the majority of these concerns. The were finally collected and assembled into 85 sections (to correspond directly with the 85 sections of Federalist Papers by Mr. Morton Borden). The time frame for these circulars/pamphlets was 1787-9.
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at first I was thinking of Jimmy Carter, now THERE is a President we can all be PROUD of.  Those that worship him DON"T remember the LOOOONNNNNGGGGG lines at the gas pump and the "misery index"  But, I know it is Clinton.  Yup, the HIGHEST tax increase by any president EVER!  But that's why the LEFT loves him sooo much!  The libbies LOVE taxpayers, that's how they get THEIR checks!
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THe Bill of Rights:\n\n1st Freedoms of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly\n2nd Right to bear arms\n3rd Quartering soldiers in private homes\n4th Searches and seizures; warrants\n5th Procedural rights\n6th Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions\n7th Right to trial by jury in civil cases\n8th Excessive bail & fines; cruel & unusual punishment\n9th Unenumerated rights retained by the people\n10th Powers reserved to the states or to the people
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See US Constitution:  Bill of Rights.\n\nAs written, not as perverted by activist justices.
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James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights which was ratified by the First United States Congress.  Madison based his draft on George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights.
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During the Constitutional Convention it was agreed (to get support for the Constitution) that one of the first acts of congress would be to draft a Bill of Rights.  James Madison was assigned this drafting task.  He substantially based his efforts on the work of George Mason who was the primary writer of the Virginia Declaration of Rights.  (Within these efforts was what would become the Sixth Amendment.)  The end result became the proposed Bill of Rights which was offered by the First Congress to the several States.
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Peter Drucker\n\nhttp://www.peter-drucker.com/about.html
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With all due respect, your stated desire doesn’t make any sense.  The ten articles of the United States Bill of Rights are written in clear language with most economical use of the language.  There are only 462 words of content in all ten amendments.\n\nIt would be interesting to know what is your intended use.  In my seminars I find that rather than summarize them I have to expand from both a origin perspective as well as from a case law perspective.  To do less is to cloud them in misunderstandings.     \n\nIf this is a class project, have your instructor contact me and I'll explain why this is not possible, something the instructor should already know.
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A resounding yes!\n\nWe should change the name of the Bill of Rights. Considering the hilarious nick u have Una-bonger, I think u could come up with a few great ones, if you please...
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Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense" I believe. That is probably the writing they are referring to. Just go to the library and look up works by the 3 authors. I'd skip the nigeria guy. I would scan the writings, stick post-it notes to the relevant sections. For the introduction I would take one of the exerpts from one of the three books and try to relate it to current events. "Common Sense" would be a great one, because in my opinion, society today has very little of it, and proof can be seen in the many ridiculous lawsuits brought to our courts today.\n\nGood luck with your paper!
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He wrote as Silence Dogood in the New England Courant.\n\nyou can even read some of those letters here -\n\nhttp://www.ushistory.org/franklin/courant/\n\nHe also published the Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack.
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The authority you're asking about is contained in a mind-numbingly complex series of Acts of Congress and legal decisions in case law, one built on top of the next. The staggering volume of this legal mess invites challenges from those who would like to find a single line somewhere that brings down the house of cards and proves it all invalid. \n\nIt is true that it took several false starts before the legal foundation for taxing personal income was strong enough to make it a permanent source of revenue for the U.S. government. The first U.S. income tax, enacted in 1862 to pay for the Civil War, was repealed 10 years later. \n\nIn 1894, Congress tried to bring back income taxes, but a year later the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in the landmark "Pollack" case. (A central issue in that case was how these taxes would be "apportioned" to the various states.) By 1913, Congress gave it one more shot, and the states ratified the Sixteenth Amendment, which says:\n\n"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration."\n\nSome modern tax skeptics claim this amendment was not properly ratified. Alas, so far, none of them have been able to convince a federal court of the validity of their claim. \n\nWorse, many of these people offer themselves up as "tax consultants" and bilk hard-working people out of "advisory fees" based on their delusional claims. They are about as legitimate as those fictitious e-mails from ousted Nigerian officials offering to pay you handsomely for helping them move millions of dollars out of their country.\n\nThe IRS provides a nice summary on the history of the laws that gave rise to the U.S. income tax. You can also find more on the history of the U.S. income tax on the Web site at Colorado College. Here are some highlights from that page: \n\n1916-1951: new tax legislation enacted every year \n1939: U.S. Tax Laws first codified as an integral part of the U.S. Code -- IRC 1939 \n1954: U.S. tax code amended and becomes IRC 1954 \n1986: Code completely revamped -- IRC 1986 US Code, Title 26, Internal Revenue Code of 1986 \n1997: Taxpayer Relief Act -- new beneficial rules to offset education costs \n2001: Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act -- phased in changes with sunset provisions causing the new tax laws to terminate in 2011, leaving the clean up to future sessions of Congress. Middle income taxpayers assume burden for repealed estate tax provisions by now paying capital gains income tax on decedent's built in gain. \nAs for the various types of income, they are also thoroughly defined in the tax law (and on the IRS Web site). There is wage income, interest and dividend income, capital gains, alimony, rental income, lottery winnings -- you get the idea. And there's a place for each and every one of them on your Form 1040 tax return.\n\nSorry to be the one to break the bad news.
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No. Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence not the Constitution of the United States
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/First_amendment\nhttp://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html\nHere are 3
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1)  Karl Marx.  He laid out the principle that when there is too great a divide between the haves and the have-nots, civil unrest occurs.  This can be as simple as the LA riots, or as massive as Chinese revolution.  Taxes are one of many ways in which the inequity is reduced, thereby staving off the marked Decline of Western Civilization for another few decades.\n2)  Karl Marx.  Try riding the back of the bus through Dorchester and Roxbury while wearing a gold Rolex and fur coat.  Now ask the folks sittin' next to you if they think you should be paying the same rate of tax as they do.  If you make it home alive, you'll have proven to yourself that you probably ought to be paying more.
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Thomas Jefferson.\n\nHe wrote the Decleration of Independence, otherwise, we wouldnt be free.\n\nYou bunch of hippies!