Posted originally on Armstrong Economics on: May 28, 2024

US Colonial Courthouse Philadelphia

• Why Innocent People Plead Guilty (by Judge Rakoff)
• Hammurabi Legal Code – 1780BC
• Blackstone – Commentary on the Laws of England
• Magna Carta
• Body of Liberties 1641 Mass Bay
• Laws & Liberties of 1648 Mass. Bay
• English Bill of Rights 1689
• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution of the United States

United States Case Law

• Hylton v. United States, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 171 (1797) –(What are direct taxes)
• In Re Sinking Fund Cases, 99 US 700 (1878) – (Entering into Contracts)
• Boyd v. United States – 116 U.S. 616 (1886) – (4th Am Illegal Search)
• O’Neil v. Vermont, 144 U.S. 323 (1892) –   (State Prosecution of Out-of-State Persons upheld)
• Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429 (1895) (Income Tax was Unconstitutional)
• Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, 158 U.S. 601 (1895) –    (Income Tax was Unconstitutional)
• Flint v. Stone Tracy Company, 220 U.S. 107 (1911) –  (Corporations can be taxed on income Federally)
• BRUSHABER v. UNION PACIFIC R. CO., 240 U.S. 1 (1916) –  (Upheld Income Tax as Constitutional)
• Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 US 479 (1965) – (Right to Privacy)
• Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 240 U.S. 1 (1916) –  (Upheld Income Tax as Constitutional)
• J. W. GOLDSMITH, JR.-GRANT CO. v. UNITED STATES 254 U.S. 505 (1921) (civil asset forfeiture)
• PERRY v. UNITED STATES, 294 U.S. 330 (1935) – (Gold Clause)
• Brady v Maryland, 373 US 83 (1963) – (5th Amend Right to Remain Silent)
• Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297 (1980) – (Constitution is Negative Restraint)
• Braswell v United States – 487 US 99 (1988) – (Corporation denied 5th Am)
• Crawford v US – 541 US 36 (2004) –                                                                           (Hearsay unconstitutional without right to Cross-examine)
• UNITED STATES v. ZICHETTELLO, 208 F.3d 72 (2d Cir. 2000) –                (Judges Changing Transcript)
• LUIS v. UNITED STATES (asset Freezes)