 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 884 pages
...Constitution, but still it must be imposed for a public burden ; and in the other case he says this power may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which...to which the government may choose to carry it. The objects to which it is applicable must, as we think, be the carrying out the powers of government,... | |
 | Mexico. Suprema Corte de Justicia - Taxation - 1880 - 214 pages
...their property is essential to the very existence of government and may be legitimably exercised in the objects to which it is applicable to the utmost extent to which the government may chosse to cary it. The only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 212 pages
...Marshall, in McCullough vs. Maryland, above referred to, rendered almost one hundred years ago. He says : "It is admitted that the power of taxing the people...carry it. The only security against the abuse of this poiver if found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax the Legislature acts upon... | |
 | Ignacio Luis Vallarta - 1881 - 520 pages
...their proporty is essential to tha very existence of goverunient and may he legitimatcly exercised in the objects to which it is applicable to the utmost extent to which the goverument may choose to carry it. Tho ouly security against the abase of this po-rc-er is found in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1288 pages
...eov crumcnt, and may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which it Inapplicable, totiie inmost extent to which the government may choose to carry it. The only security against the almsc of (his power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a t«x. tin* Legislature... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883 - 760 pages
...ackuowleges no other limits than those expressly prescribed in the constitution." He adds that " it may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which...extent to which the government may choose to carry it." See, also, State v. Laucaster, 4 Neb. 540; Bank v. Billings, 4 Pet. 514; Cooley, Tax'u, c. 2. The only... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1164 pages
...that the power of tnxiii!; the poople and their property is essential to the very existence of the government, and may be legitimately exercised on the...security against the abuse of this power is found in the government itself." And in Case of State Tax on Foreign-Held Bonds, 15 Wall. 300, it is said: "Unless... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable tq the utmost extent to which the government may choose to carry it." Tracing the right of taxation to the source from which it was derived, the court further said: "It... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy, Edmund Hatch Bennett - Constitutional law - 1886 - 764 pages
...determined by the Legislature." The same eminent judge remarked in McCulloch v. The State of Maryland : a " It is admitted that the power of taxing the people...choose to carry it. The only security against the abupo of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax the legislature... | |
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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... 
