 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 868 էջ
...plans. This ri^ht never existed, and the question w aether it baa been surrendered cannot arise. .... If the States may tax one instrument employed by the...and every other instrument They may tax the mail, the mint, patent rights, the papers of the custom-house, and ail the means employed by the government.... | |
 | 1896 - 866 էջ
...repugnance in conferring on one government the power to control the constitutional measures of another. If the States may tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its power, they may tax any and every other instrument. If they tax the mail, they may tax the mint; they... | |
 | 1901 - 510 էջ
...the power to destroy. "If," said Marshall, "the States may tax one instrument employed by the general government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument, which would defeat the ends of the general government. This was not intended by the American people.... | |
 | 1871 - 530 էջ
...illustrated by the chief justice in McfuUoch v. Maryland, (p. 432) : " If the states," he observes, " may tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of Its powers, they maytax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mall; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent-rights;... | |
 | 1883 - 990 էջ
...the General Government. If the States, he said, may tax one instrument employed by the Government in execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument, — the mails, the mint, patent rights, and judicial processes, — to an excess which would defeat... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1873 - 622 էջ
...people of a single State cannot give." Again : " The right never existed. If the States may tax an instrument employed by the government in the execution...and every other instrument. They may tax the mail, «fec., — they may tax all the means employed by the government to an extent which would defeat all... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1876 - 494 էջ
...pursuance thereof, to be supreme ; but this principle would transfer the supremacy, in fact, to the States. If the States may tax one instrument employed by the...other instrument. They may tax the mail ; they may tax patent rights ; they may tax the papers of the custom-house ; they may tax judicial process ; they... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1876 - 256 էջ
...pursuance thereof, to be supreme ; but this principle would transfer the supremacy, in fact, to the States. If the States may tax one instrument employed by the...other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax patent rights ; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process; they may... | |
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If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom... 
