 | Science - 1897 - 896 pages
...court, by the same eminent authority, held further, as before shown, " that if the right to impose a tax exists, it is a right which in its nature acknowledges no limits." For Congress, therefore, to have authorized the States to tax " national agencies " would have been... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - Science - 1897 - 900 pages
...court, by the same eminent authority, held further, as before shown, " that if the right to impose a tax exists, it is a right which in its nature acknowledges no limits." For Congress, therefore, to have authorized the States to tax " national agencies " would have been... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 pages
...right of taxation, to burden the exercise of this power at their discretion? If the right to impose the tax exists, it is a right which in its nature acknowledges...the State or corporation which imposes it, which the will of each State and corporation may prescribe. A power which is given by the whole American people... | |
 | Henry Carter Adams - Finance - 1898 - 604 pages
...Marshall said, " The power to tax is the power to destroy." And again, " If the right to tax exist, it is a right which in its nature acknowledges no...the State or corporation which imposes it which the will of such State or corporation prescribes." It is true that the point in this case pertained to... | |
 | Ezra Parmalee Prentice, John Garret Egan - Constitutional law - 1898 - 474 pages
...Madison to Judge 2 Letter of Madison to Jefferson, Roane, Sept 2, 1819. October 24, 1787. Conf. Chatham's right which in its nature acknowledges no limits....the state or corporation which imposes it, which the will of such state or corporation may prescribe.1 " Unless restrained by provisions of the Federal... | |
 | 1899 - 898 pages
...Dyck, 27 NY 499, 538, discussing validity of legal tender act. Taxation.— Where right to lmpose a tax exists, it is a right which. in its nature, acknowledges no limits, p. 466. Cited in Fifield v. Close, 15 Mich. 508, and Jones v. Keep, 19 Wis. 876, holding unconstitutional... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Taxation - 1900 - 658 pages
...Association vs. Topeka, 20 Wallace, 655. EXTENT OP POWER. 227 held that " if the right to impose a tax exists, it is a right which, in its nature, acknowledges...the State or corporation which imposes it, which the will of such State or corporation may prescribe." And in a more recent case (Loan Association vs. Topeka,... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 pages
...denied." And, in Weston v. The City of Charleston, 2 Pet. 466, he observes : " If the right to impose the tax exists, it is a right which, in its nature, acknowledges...the State or corporation which imposes it which the will of each State and corporation may prescribe." It is conceded in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 666 pages
...The power to tax carries with it the power to destroy. If the right to impose the tax exists at all, it is a right which in its nature acknowledges no...the state or corporation which imposes it, which the mere will of such state or corporation may 123 prescribe. The consequence *woultl be, that the states... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Taxation - 1900 - 666 pages
...authority of a State consistently with the Constitution," and, further, " that if the right to impose a tax exists, it is a right which in its nature acknowledges...limits. It may be carried to any extent within the juris* 2 Peters, 449. diction of the State or corporation which imposes it, which the will of such... | |
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If the right to impose the tax exists, it is a right which in its nature acknowledges no limits. It may be carried to any extent, within the jurisdiction of the state or corporation which imposes it, which the will of each state and corporation may prescribe. 
