 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...  The Lakeside Monthly - Page 351edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 660 pages
...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...applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may chuse to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power, is found in the structure of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1819 - 816 pages
...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...applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may chuse to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power, is found in the structure of... | |
 | 1819 - 652 pages
...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 the government...itself. In imposing a tax the legislature acts upon itself and upon its constituents. This is in general a sufficient security against erroneous and oppressive... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 1178 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 818 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 740 pages
...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...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 - Courts - 1853 - 538 pages
...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.) - Civil procedure - 1857 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised on the object to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 802 pages
...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...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... | |
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