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Please use the following excerpts to answer question 23. The following excerpt is from Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chapter 2 (1776). "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate." The following excerpt is from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau (1849). "When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. . . . If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."23. Based on the two excerpts, what would you conclude to be true of the following statements? a. Adam Smith and Henry David Thoreau would agree on the distribution of taxation within the government. b. Adam Smith and Henry David Thoreau would agree on the definition of a peaceable revolution. c. Adam Smith and Henry David Thoreau would disagree on the use of military by the government. d. Adam Smith and Henry David Thoreau would disagree on the use of taxation as an avenue for government critique.

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