Walter Bagehot: “The liberty existed before, and the right to be taxed was an…”

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The liberty existed before, and the right to be taxed was an efflorescence and instance of it, not a sub-stratum or a cause.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot asserts that the right to be taxed is a manifestation of pre-existing liberty, not its foundation.

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