 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1837 - 330 pages
...case of the Providence Bank vs. Billings, (4 Peters, 514, 561, 563,) Chief Justice Marshall says: " The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation,...Operates on all the persons and property belonging to the body-politic. This is an original principle, which has its foundation in society itself. It is granted... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...instrument ; and if we do not find it there, it would be going very far to insert it by construction. The power of legislation, and, consequently, of taxation,...granted by all, for the benefit of all. It resides in government as a part of itself, and need not be reserved, when property of any description, or the... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Banks and banking - 1841 - 440 pages
...of the extent to which the principle under consideration has !«?cn curried. The power of taxation is an original principle, which has its foundation...granted by all, for the benefit of all. It resides in government as part of itself, and need not be reserved when property of any description, or the right... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 852 pages
...which it does not extend, are exempt from taxation. McCulloch v. The State of Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316. The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation,...persons and property belonging to the body politic. Providence Bank v. Billings & Pitman, 4 Peters, 563. These principles exempt the United States and... | |
 | Commerce - 1846 - 632 pages
...consequently of taxation, operates on all persons and property belonging to the body politic. This is the original principle which has its foundation in society...granted by all, for the benefit of all. It resides in government as a part of itself, and need not be reserved when property of any description, or the right... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 560 pages
...uses this language : " The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation, operates on all tho persons and property belonging to the body^ politic."...is an original principle, which has its foundation to society itself — it is granted by all for tho benefit of all — it resides in government as a... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1853 - 538 pages
...consequently of taxation, operates on all persons and property belonging to the body politic." "It is an original principle which has its foundation...itself. It is granted by all, for the benefit of all." "However absolute the right of an individual may be, it is still in the nature of that right that it... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...instrument ; and if we do not find it there, it would be going very far to insert it by construction. " The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation,...granted by all, for the benefit of all. It resides in government as a part of itself, and need not be reserved when property of any description, or the right... | |
 | 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
...Chief Justice MARSHALL, in the case of the Providence Bank v. Billings, 4 Peters, 514, 561, 563: " ' The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation,...operates on all the persons and property belonging to tho body politic. This is an original principle which has its foundation in society itself. It is granted... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 690 pages
...instrument, and if we do not find it there it would be going very far to insert it by construction. The power of legislation, and consequently of taxation,...granted by all for the benefit of all. It resides in government as a part of itself, and need not be reserved when property of any description, or the right... | |
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The power of legislation, and, consequently, of taxation, operates on all the persons and property belonging to the body politic. This is an original principle, which has its foundation in society itself. It is granted by all, for the benefit of all. 
