 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 sider
...should 4je the supreme law of the land, would be empty and unmeaning declamation. If the states might tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they might tai every other instrument. They might tax the mail ; they might tax the mint ; they might tax... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 sider
...to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied. But all inconsistencies are to be reconciled by the magic of the word CONFIDENCE. Taxation, it is said,... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 452 sider
...to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control,— are propositions not to be denied. But all inconsistencies are to be reconciled by the magic word CONFIDENCE. Taxation, it is said, does... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 sider
...these very measures was declared to be supreme over that which exerted a control. If the states might tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they might tax any and every other instrument; the mail, the mint, patent rights, papers of the custom house,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 556 sider
...to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.' " The officers and crew of the vessel are as much the instruments of commerce as the ship, and yet... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 552 sider
...constitutional measures of nnoihur, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to he supremo over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.' " The officers and crew of the vessel nre as much the instruments of commerce as the ship, and yet... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 sider
...this position the reasoning and conclusion of the Chief-Justice are too strong to be shaken : — " If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers," he says, " they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1854 - 862 sider
...•" * . • ' 498 SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. Padelford, Fay k Co. w. Mayor and Aid. City Savannah. .^ the Government, in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other. They may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint ; they may tax all the means employed by the Government,... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 sider
...this position the reasoning and conclusion of the Chief- Justice are too strong to be shaken : — " If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execntion of its powers," he says, " they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 sider
...to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied/ 1 As in the case of the power < to establish post-offices and postroads/ From this has been inferred/... | |
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... That the power to tax involves the power to destroy; that ; the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of... 
