 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...22; Moore t>. Missouri, 159 U. a, 673. Bradley laid down the rale as follows r* " The provision . . . was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting...it chooses, exempt certain classes of property from taxation at all, such as churches, libraries, and the property of charitable institutions. It may impose... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 980 pages
...said: "The provision in the fourteenth amendment, that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent astatefrom adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways. It may, if it chooses,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 988 pages
...Rep. p. 536: "The provision in the 14th Amendment, that no state shall deny to any person within its tates from foreign countries," with some exceptions...merchandise of Porto Rican manufacture coming into euch as churches, libraries, and the property of charitable institutions. It may impose different specific... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 958 pages
...Sup. Ct. Rep. 533, in which it was said not to have been intended to prevent a state from changing its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable...if it chooses, exempt certain classes of property altogether; may impose different specific taxes upon different trades or professions; may vary the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1036 pages
...the unit rule, denies the equal protection of the laws. That provision In the fourteenth amendment "was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting...system of taxation In all proper and reasonable ways," nor was that amendment "intended to compel a state to adopt an iron rule of equal taxation." Bell's... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1232 pages
...1035, it was held that the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution did not prevent the state from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways, nor the classification of property for taxation : that the Missouri statute imposing a tax upon the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1166 pages
...Amend. 14, by denying equal protection of the laws, since, if the requirement is a tax, that amendment was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting...system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways. 5. SAME— DUE PROCESS OF LAW. The ordinance does not violate that amendment in depriving a person... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1232 pages
...Sup. Ct. Rep. 533. in which it was enid .not to have been intended to prevent a state from changing its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable...if it chooses, exempt certain classes of property altogether; may impose different specific taxes upon different trades or professions; may vary the... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Baker - Constitutional law - 1891 - 378 pages
...competent to make, when all corporate securities are subject to the same rule. This amendment does not prevent a state from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable wavs, nor compel it to adopt an iron rule of equal taxation. The amendment intended only that equal... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1892 - 780 pages
...follows: "The provision in the fourteenth amendment, that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was...reasonable ways. It may, if it chooses, exempt certain • lasses of property from any taxation at all, such as churches, libraries, and the property of charitable... | |
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Amendment, that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways. It may, if it chooses, exempt certain... 
