 | 1819 - 660 էջ
...exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may chuse to carry it. The only security against the abuse of...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... | |
 | 1819 - 652 էջ
...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 chusc to carry it. The only security against the abuse of tins power, is found in the structure of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1819 - 816 էջ
...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 chuse to carry it. The only security against the abuse of this power, is found in the structure of... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1846 - 1178 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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,...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 - 1858 - 666 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1862 - 802 էջ
...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,...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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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... 
