Word: areopagitica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the power to tax was the power to destroy, the Deutsch brief quoted the late great Justice Holmes's observation that "a page of history was worth a volume of logic," traced the sorry history of newspaper taxation. He began in 1644 with John Milton's Areopagitica-A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, caught Queen Anne levying the first taxes against newspapers, discovered that the American Revolution "really began in 1765" when the first batch of newspaper duty stamps was shipped out to the Colonies from England, deduced that the Louisiana...