It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may choose... Civil Government in the United States - Page 37by George Henry Martin - 1902 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1819 - 660 pages
...this original right of taxation, which is acknowledged to remain with the states. It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property...applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may chuse to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power, is found in the structure of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...this original right of taxation, which is acknowledged to remain with the States. It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property...applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may chuse to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power, is found in the structure of... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...this original right of taxation which is acknowledged to remain with the states. It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property...to which the government may choose to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In... | |
| George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...this original right of taxation, which is acknowledged to remain with the States. It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property...to which the government may choose to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 1178 pages
...constitutional grounds. Thus, in McCullough v. The State of Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, it is admitted that the power of taxing the people, and their property,...existence of government and may be legitimately exercised (by the States) on the objects to which it is applicable to the utmost extent to which the government... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 668 pages
...advanced. In McCullough e. The State of Maryland, 4 Wheat. 428, this court say, — " It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their property...to which the government may choose to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 818 pages
...188. " It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and Ex purte Schun & Gulf Railroad Company. their property is essential to the very existence of government, and may he legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent ti which the... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 740 pages
...in McCullough v. The State of Maryland, (4 Wheat. 428,) speaks in this wise : " It is admitted that the power of taxing the people, and their property,...to which the government may choose to carry it. The only security to be found against the abuse of this power, is the structure of the government itself.... | |
| Asa Kinne - Courts - 1853 - 538 pages
...It is admitted to be essential to the very existence of government." "It is so ample that it may be exercised on the objects to which it is applicable,...extent to which the government may choose to carry it." " There is no limit on the exercise of the right, no guard against the abuse of the power, but in the... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1857 - 630 pages
...Roosevelt agt. Farnwwi et al., 12 7/oiw. /VR 469 ; T/je Chemical Bank agt. TAe Jtfayor, §•c., id. 477.) The power of taxing the people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. It may legitimately be exercised by every state on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost... | |
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