Golden Rule
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue May 18 13:52:17 UTC 1999
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Kathleen Miller wrote:
> The earliest use of that phrase we have (note: our database isn't complete
> yet. It only goes back to the early 70's at the moment) is below. The
> phrase occurs in 8 other articles as well.
>
> September 30, 1981, CALIFORNIA PROPERTY TAX CUT STARTING TO HAVE BIG
> EFFECT. By ROBERT LINDSEY, Special to the New York Times
The earliest citation I can readily find is in _Reviews in American
History_ 7: 89 (1979) ("Whoever has the gold, makes the rules").
Interestingly, this article attributes the phrase to the comic strip
Wizard of Id.
Fred R. Shapiro Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
Associate Librarian for Public Services TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
and Lecturer in Legal Research ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
Yale Law School Oxford University Press, 1998
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu ISBN 0-19-509547-2
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