Cases on American Constitutional LawCallaghan, 1898 - 678 páginas |
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... doubt he ought to answer . There was nothing confidential required to be disclosed . If there had been he was not obliged to answer it ; and if he thought that anything was communicated to him in confidence he was not bound to disclose ...
... doubt he ought to answer . There was nothing confidential required to be disclosed . If there had been he was not obliged to answer it ; and if he thought that anything was communicated to him in confidence he was not bound to disclose ...
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... doubt whether a tax , by a general assessment of personal prop- erty , within the United States , is included within the term direct tax . As I do not think the tax on carriages is a direct tax , it is un- necessary at this time for me ...
... doubt whether a tax , by a general assessment of personal prop- erty , within the United States , is included within the term direct tax . As I do not think the tax on carriages is a direct tax , it is un- necessary at this time for me ...
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... doubt that the principal , I will not say the only objects , that the framers of the constitution contemplated as falling within the rule of apportion- ment , were a capitation tax and a tax on land . Local considera- tions , and the ...
... doubt that the principal , I will not say the only objects , that the framers of the constitution contemplated as falling within the rule of apportion- ment , were a capitation tax and a tax on land . Local considera- tions , and the ...
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... doubt , that if better reasons could have been offered , they would not have escaped the sagacity and learning of the gentlemen who of- fered them . There is no necessity or propriety in determining what is HYLTON v . UNITED STATES . 31.
... doubt , that if better reasons could have been offered , they would not have escaped the sagacity and learning of the gentlemen who of- fered them . There is no necessity or propriety in determining what is HYLTON v . UNITED STATES . 31.
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... doubt . It is sufficient , on the present occasion , for the court to be satis- fied that this is not a direct tax contemplated by the constitution , in order to affirm the present judgment ; since , if it cannot be ap- portioned , it ...
... doubt . It is sufficient , on the present occasion , for the court to be satis- fied that this is not a direct tax contemplated by the constitution , in order to affirm the present judgment ; since , if it cannot be ap- portioned , it ...
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Página 179 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Página 317 - This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Página 163 - But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist...
Página 320 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Página 507 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties,...
Página 40 - The result is a conviction that the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Página 305 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Página 594 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states ; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Página 421 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the' charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence.
Página 322 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.