 | Law - 1871 - 530 pages
...other. It is admitted that there is no express provision in the constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and Instrumentalities...government, can exist only at the mercy of that government. Of what avail are these means If another power may tax them at discretion? liut we are referred to... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1871 - 846 pages
...other. It is admitted that there is no express provision in the Constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities...the control of another and distinct government, can only exist at the mercy of that government. Of what avail are these means if another power may tax... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...other. It is admitted that there is no express provision in the Constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities...the control of another and distinct government, can only exist at the mercy of that government. Of what avail are these means if another power may tax... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...Constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities of the Sutw. nor is there any prohibiting the States from taxing the means and instrumentality of that government. In both cases the exemption rests upon necessary implication, and... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 1044 pages
...other. It is admitted that there is no express provision in the constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities...government, can exist only at the mercy of that government. Of what avail are these means, if another power may tax them at discretion?" See also Dobbins v. Commis-... | |
 | Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Canada. Supreme Court - Canada - 1882 - 934 pages
...said, at p. 127, the rule and principle of the case (Dobbins') was, that "the exemption rests 1877 upon necessary implication, and is upheld by the great...selfpreservation ; as any Government whose means employed in conduct,,. ing its operations, if subject to the control of another and distinct Cm- or Government,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - Railroads - 1883 - 106 pages
...maintain his office. In both cases, as observed by Mr. Justice Nelson, the exemption from taxation was " upheld by the great law of self-preservation, as any...whose means employed in conducting its operations is subject to the control of another, can exist only at the mercy of that government." The correctness... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 966 pages
...other. It is admitted that there is no express provision in the Constitution that pro hibits the General Government from taxing the means and instrumentalities...States, nor is there any prohibiting the States from taxi»;; the means and instrumentalities of that government. In both cases the exemption rusts up:ni... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...officer of a state, said that "any government whose means employed in conducting its operations are made subject to the control of another and distinct government, can exist only at the mercy of that government." I could add to these authorities, if anything more were required, that all the recorded utterances... | |
 | Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Police power - 1886 - 722 pages
...other. It is admitted that there is no express provision in the constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities...whose means employed in conducting its operations are subject to the control of another and distinct government, can only exist at the mercy of that... | |
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It is admitted that there is no express provision in the Constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and instrumentalities of the States, nor is there any prohibiting the States from taxing the means and instrumentalities... 
