 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 - Σελίδα 6191886Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Harold Edgar Barnes - 1915 - 376 σελίδες
...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." Whilst undoubtedly both the 5th and 10th Amendments qualify in so far as they are applicable, all the... | |
 | Lindsay Rogers - 1916 - 200 σελίδες
...legislative department of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...courts, but to the people by whom its members are elected."17 Such a position in this case, however, was easily justified on the ground that Congress... | |
 | 1916 - 656 σελίδες
...legislative department of the government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...courts, but to the people by whom its members are elected."17 Such a position in this case, however, was easily justified on the ground that Congress... | |
 | Joseph Dana Miller - 1917 - 498 σελίδες
...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." — Veazie Bank vs. Feimo, 8 Wall., 548. See also Perham vs Justices, 9 Geo., 341-352. The Supreme... | |
 | 1917 - 848 σελίδες
...may otherwise levy indirect taxes as it pleases. The power to tax may even be used oppressively — "the responsibility of the legislature is not to the...but to the people by whom its members are elected." Congress can tax for other purposes than to raise revenue. At the very beginning of our national history,... | |
 | William Meade Fletcher - 1919 - 1316 σελίδες
...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."... | |
 | Robert Eugene Cushman - 1920 - 180 σελίδες
...legislative department 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."... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1922 - 568 σελίδες
...to destroy the franchise of the State bank, he held was a matter which the Court could not consider. "The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...but to the people, by whom its members are elected." * From the broad construction given to the "necessary and proper" ' clause of the Constitution by the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1923 - 144 σελίδες
...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 coi-porations, it can not for that! reason only be pronounced contrary to the Constitution."... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1923 - 138 σελίδες
...legislative departments of the Government limitations upon the exercise of its acknowledged powers. The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon...by whom its members are elected. So if a particular tux bears heavily upon a corporation or a class of corporations, it can not for thaft reason only be... | |
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