Power of Taxation
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taxation · power of taxation · right of taxation · the power of taxation · authority to raise revenue · concurrent right of taxation · taxing power · the right of taxation
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The constitutional power of governments to raise revenue, disputed here as between the federal government's implied power to limit it and the states' reserved right to exercise it.
The prohibition to tax exports and imports leaves untouched every other species of taxation.
Congress have, by one corporation, subtracted from the fund made liable by the constitution to state taxation, thirty millions of specified right, by the instrumentality of power implied or not prohibited.
” The assertion “that the same paramount power” (by which I understand the constitution) “which restrained the states from taxing imports and exports, may restrain a state from such other exercise of their taxing power as is in its nature incompatible with and repugnant to the constitutional laws of the union,” by blending a sequitur and a non sequitur together and confounding our ideas, endeavour …