 | 1819 - 660 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...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...to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax the legislature acts... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...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...to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax, the legislature acts... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 1178 pages
...is essential to the very 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 may choose to carry it. And again, although in that case, it was held, the State possessed no power to tax the Branch of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 668 pages
...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...to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax, the legislature acts... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 818 pages
...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 government may choose to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power,... | |
 | 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
...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...to carry it. The only security against the abuse of it is to be found, if anywhere, in the structure of the government itself. It exists in the power to... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 666 pages
...property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the object to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to...to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax, the government acts... | |
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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... 
