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Failure in British government: the politics of the
poll tax
This book tells for the first time the full and gripping story of the policy that toppled the century's longest-serving Prime Minister and brought grandmothers onto the streets in protest.
David Butler, Andrew Adonis, Tony Travers,
1994
The gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people.
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List of Persons Assesed for a
Poll Tax in Dedham, 1891
Any male person whose name does not appear on this list, may be assessed any
time before the first day of October, by giving notice in writing to the assessors
that he was on the first day of May liable to pay a Poll Tax in Dedham. Any
woman ...
Dedham, Mass. Board of assessors,
1891
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The Thatcher Revolution: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony ...
If local governments spent excessively, they would have to increase the poll tax
to cover the cost. It was expected that the general public (not just homeowners)
would become a pressure group to restrain local government spending in order
to ...
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The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late Fifteenth and the ...
The poll tax — the cizye (jizyah) — was imposed only on the dhimmis. It was a
sharH tax, which stressed the fact that the non-Muslim monotheistic communities
were under the protection of the Muslim ruler, a kind of payment for protection ...
THE anti-poll tax bill, H. R. 7, was introduced into the House January 6, 1943. It
was passed on May 25 by a vote of 265 to 110. This bill is now in the Senate and
has been voted upon favorably by the Senate Judiciary Committee, but poll-tax ...
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Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics: Hispanic ...
These disenfranchising devices were created gradually. For example, Georgia
retained as law a poll tax from the time when the payment of taxes was a
common requirement for voting. In 1877, Georgia moved to make this poll tax
permanent ...
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Reforming the Electoral Process in America: Toward More ...
THE POLL TAX IN THE UNITED STATES A poll tax is a capital tax levied equally
on all adults. In the United States, the poll tax has long been connected with
voting rights because officials in the southern states had utilized the poll tax to
keep ...
None is more bitter than this: at the same time that recent hearings on the Pepper
anti-poll tax bill were bringing to light the full significance of this tax in barring the
race from participation in democracy, two members of Congress were citing ...
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The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow
Under the heading “poll tax for whites,” the digest reveals that more blacks than
whites were listed as having paid their poll tax in every year from 1874 to 1911.
From 1874 to 1898 an average of 847 whites and 1,451 blacks were annually ...
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MMBM: Time for Roger Goodell's Tom Brady punishment to get …
Yes folks it seems that the liberal media is trying to smother the flames of Trump-mania by instituting there own version of a poll tax on this ... «SB Nation, 七月 15»
Why some state constitutions keep outdated laws
Those amendments include provisions that mandate segregated schools and the poll tax. Back in 2012, Alabama voters defeated measures to ... «Constitution Daily, 七月 15»
Green Party Hails Federal Court Ruling Concerning Pennsylvania's …
"The restrictions placed on third party candidates is equivalent to a modern day poll tax. Judge Stengel's decision has made it clear that limiting ... «Green Party US, 七月 15»
Civil War anniversary: The Huff House during the Civil War years
Fisher paid the Whitfield County poll tax for 1863 and his property was valued at $6,000. The Fishers were the third family to occupy the house. «The Daily Citizen, 七月 15»
BBC Charter renewal: invisible actors and critical friends
Meanwhile a story in the Sun by its political editor Tom Newton Dunn, headed 'Fury at “Poll Tax” for BBC', confidently (and entirely wrongly) ... «Open Democracy, 七月 15»
How to revive our sad high streets
This major injustice, endemic in all property taxes, is what torpedoed the poll tax. Since 2008 pre-tax profits for the largest retailers have fallen ... «Express.co.uk, 七月 15»
William Waldegrave: too nice ever to have been PM
... through Major, through the poll tax (which Waldegrave devised), through the arms-to-Iraq affair (for which he deservedly escaped censure, ... «Spectator.co.uk, 七月 15»
91 years since El Paso physician tried to vote and then changed …
He held a receipt in his hand indicating he had paid the required $1.75 poll tax. Backed by the NAACP, Nixon put his reputation and profession ... «El Paso Times, 七月 15»
'Triumph' of blacks is subject of book
... discrimination, such as whites-only facilities, violence against a member of the Finney family and her great-grandfather paying the poll tax. «Martinsville Bulletin, 七月 15»
Blatting Brutal Cuts
... to the licence fee, claiming that he dislikes it on the basis that it is a form of regressive taxation, comparable (so he asserts) to the poll tax. «Buenos Aires Herald, 七月 15»