Robin L. Einhorn is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833–1872, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Articles "Institutional Reality in the Age of Slavery: Taxation and Democracy in the States," Journal of Policy History 18 (2006): 21-43. "Early Impact of Slavery," in The Reader's Companion to the American Congress, ed. Julian Zelizer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. "Political Culture," in The Encyclopedia of Chicago, ed. James R. Grossman, et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. "Patrick Henry's Case Against the Constitution: The Structural Problem With Slavery," Journal of the Early Republic 22 (2002): 549-73. "Species of Property: The American Property Tax Uniformity Clauses Reconsidered," Journal of Economic History 61 (2001): 973-1007. "Slavery and the Politics of Taxation in the Early United States," Studies in American Political Development 14 (2000):197-225. "The Civil War and Municipal Government in Chicago," in Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays, ed. Maris A. Vinovskis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 117-38.