 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 upon its constituents. This is, in general, a sufficient security against erroneous and oppressive taxation.  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 2821898Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 pages
...chuse 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...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. The people of a State, therefore, give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their property,... | |
 | 1819 - 660 pages
...found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax the legislature'actg upon itself and upon its constituents. This is in general a sufficient...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. The people of a state, therefore, give to then1 government a right of taxing themselves and their property,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...choose 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...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. The people of a state, therefore, give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their property... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 pages
...choose 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...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. " 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 - 1852 - 740 pages
...to carry it. The only security to be found against the abuse of this power, is the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax, the legislature...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. The people of a state, therefore, give to their government The People v. The Mayor, &c. of Brooklyn.... | |
 | 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 - 1858 - 666 pages
...of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax, the government acts upon its constituents. This is in general a sufficient...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. The people of a state, therefore, give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their property;... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1868 - 730 pages
...choose 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...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. " The people of a State, therefore, give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - 76 pages
...choose 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...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. This is true. But to what source do we trace this right 3 It is obvious that it is an incident of sovereignty,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1865 - 726 pages
...the abuse of the power is the structure of the government itself. In imposing the tax the government acts upon its constituents. This is in general a sufficient security against erroneous or oppressive taxation." The power to tax being without limitation, it results by logical implication... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1868 - 588 pages
...choose 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...security against erroneous and oppressive taxation. The people, therefore, give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their property ; and,... | |
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