The first answer to this is that the judicial cannot prescribe to the legislative departments of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon persons, but the responsibility... Atlantic Reporter - Side 6191886Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Edward McPherson - 1870 - 142 sider
...legislative departments of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...particular tax bears heavily upon a corporation or a class of corporations, it cannot, for that reason only, be pronounced contrary to the Constitution.... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1870 - 144 sider
...legislative departments of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...particular tax bears heavily upon a corporation or a class of corporations, it cannot, for that reason only, be pronounced contrary to the Constitution.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 738 sider
...legislative departments of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...elected. So if a particular tax bears heavily upon n corporation, or a class of corporations, it cannot, for that reason only, be pronounced contrary... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1872
...legislative departments of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...but to the people by whom its members are elected. So1 if a particular tax bears heavily upon a corporation or a class of corporations, it cannot, for... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1870 - 680 sider
...which is songht to be taxed, but the jnropfrty created or contents made and issned by tttem. (Id.) 3. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...the responsibility of the legislature is not to the conrts, but to the people, bv whom it« members are elected ; so that if a particular tax bears heavily... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 1018 sider
...legislative departments of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...particular tax bears heavily upon a corporation, or a class of corporations, it cannot, for that reason only, be pronounced contrary to the Constitution.... | |
| 1896 - 1212 sider
...cannot prescribe to the legislative department limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...but to the people by whom its members are elected." In Williams v. Supervisors, 122 US 354, 7 Sup. Ct. 1244, the supreme court decided that the mode lu... | |
| 1885 - 890 sider
...legislative departments of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...particular tax bears heavily upon a corporation or a class of corporations, it cannot, for that reason only, be pronounced contrary to the constitution.... | |
| 1886 - 1076 sider
...provisions of any law not inconsistent with the fundamental law of the State. Cooley, Taxation 84. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...whom its members are elected. So, if a particular tax 1юагн heavily upon a corporation or a class of corporations, it cannot, for that reason oulv, be... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1886 - 1100 sider
...legislative department of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...whom its members are elected. So, if a particular tax bear heavily upon a corporation or class of corporations, it cannot, for that reason only, be declared... | |
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