 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...109), in which the court upheld the progressive features of the legacy tax, are also pertinent : " The grave consequences which it is asserted must arise...unless the courts usurp a purely legislative function. If a case should ever arise where an arbitrary and confiscatory exaction is imposed, bearing the guise... | |
 | 1906 - 1232 pages
...fortunes is a dangerous liberty to be exercised by the Congress the Supreme Court disposes of thus : The grave consequences which it is asserted must arise...unless the courts usurp a purely legislative function. If a case should ever arise, where an arbitrary and confiscatory exaction is imposed bearing the guise... | |
 | 1907 - 1184 pages
...out by Justice White in his scholarly and luminous decision upholding the Inheritance Tax of 1898,1 "involves in its ultimate aspect the mere assertion...free and representative government is a failure." In dealing with the problem of concentrated wealth, the progressive inheritance tax very naturally... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 212 pages
...of constitutional limitations the question whether it is or is not is legislative and not judicial. The grave consequences which it is asserted must arise...unless the courts usurp a purely legislative function. If a case should ever arise, where an arbitrary and confiscatory exaction is imposed, bearing the guise... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Antitrust law - 1900 - 676 pages
...of constitutional limitation the question whether it is or is not is legislative and not judicial. " The grave consequences which it is asserted must arise...unless the courts usurp a purely legislative function. If a case should ever arise where an arbitrary and confiscatory exaction is imposed bearing the guise... | |
 | Economics - 1900 - 608 pages
...of constitutional limitation, the question whether it is or is not is legislative and not judicial. The grave consequences which it is asserted must arise...unless the courts usurp a purely legislative function. If a case should ever arise, where an arbitrary and confiscatory exaction is imposed bearing the guise... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Colonies - 1901 - 196 pages
...US 109,) in which the court upheld the progressive features of the legacy tax, are also pertinent : "The grave consequences which it is asserted must...unless the courts usurp a purely legislative function. If a case should ever arise where an arbitrary and eonfiscatory exaction is imposed, bearing the guise... | |
 | United States. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue - Taxation - 1901 - 392 pages
...of constitutional limitation, the question whether it is or is not is legislative and not judicial. The grave consequences which it is asserted must arise...unless the courts usurp a purely legislative function. If a case should ever arise where an arbitrary and confiscatory exaction is imposed bearing the guise... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 648 pages
...41, 109, in which the court upheld the progressive features of the legacy tax, are also pertinent : " The grave consequences which it is asserted must arise...is a failure, and that the grossest abuses of power aie foreshadowed unless the courts usurp a purely legislative function. If a case should ever arise,... | |
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The grave consequences which it is asserted must arise in the future if the right to levy a progressive tax be recognized involves in its ultimate aspect the mere assertion that free and representative government is a failure, and that the grossest abuses... 
