Interests versus Ideology in the Ratification of the 16th and 17th Amendments
Holcombe, Randall, and Donald Lacombe. “Interests versus Ideology in the Ratification of the 16th and 17th Amendments.” Economics and Politics, vol. 10, no. 2, July 1998, pp. 143-59. article
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