 | 1819 - 652 страници
...nature and extent of this original right of taxation, which is acknowledged to remain with the states. It is admitted that the power of taxing the people...applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may chusc to carry it. The only security against the abuse of tins power, is found in the structure of... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1846 - 1178 страници
...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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1871 - 818 страници
...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,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1852 - 740 страници
...Chief Justice Marshall, in McCullough v. The State of Maryland, (4 Wheat. 428,) speaks in this wise : " It is admitted that the power of taxing the people,...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. In imposing... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1853 - 538 страници
...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.) - 1857 - 630 страници
...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... | |
 | 1862 - 802 страници
...to the existence of government, and as one of the incidents of sovereignty. Judge MARSHALL. — » It is admitted that the power of taxing the people...which the government may choose to carry it. * * * The people of a State, therefore, give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their property... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1865 - 726 страници
...and chattels, which is found in all or nearly all the tax and assessment laws. The power of taxation "may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which...to carry it. The only security against the abuse of the power is the structure of the government itself. In imposing the tax the government acts upon its... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Samuel Field Phillips - 1868 - 670 страници
...and civilization would relapse into barbarism." State v. Petway, 2 State r. Bell. Jon. Eq., 405. " The power of taxing the people and their property...it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the governernment may choose to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - 1868 - 1050 страници
...regulation of commerce, are also sovereign powers in the United States." " 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 in the exercise of the right, no guard against the abuse of power, but in the structure... | |
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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... 
