Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical: With Observations Upon the Ordinary Provisions of State Constitutions and a Comparison with the Constitutions of Other Countries, Volume 1 |
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... TAXES . § 63. Constitutional Provisions concerning Apportionment of Representa- tives and Direct Taxes § 64. History of the Clause concerning the Apportionment of Representa- tives and Direct Taxes 369 . 370 . 393 § 67. The Census . 398 ...
... TAXES . § 63. Constitutional Provisions concerning Apportionment of Representa- tives and Direct Taxes § 64. History of the Clause concerning the Apportionment of Representa- tives and Direct Taxes 369 . 370 . 393 § 67. The Census . 398 ...
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... taxes . Connecticut and Delaware one - third ; Massachusetts , Rhode Island , and Maryland about one - half ; Virginia three - fifths ; Pennsylvania nearly the whole ; and New York , which derived a large revenue from an impost , more ...
... taxes . Connecticut and Delaware one - third ; Massachusetts , Rhode Island , and Maryland about one - half ; Virginia three - fifths ; Pennsylvania nearly the whole ; and New York , which derived a large revenue from an impost , more ...
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... Taxes were voted to be needless burdens , courts of justice to be intolerable grievances , and lawyers a common nuisance . These doctrines were embraced by at least twelve thousand men in the New England States , with correspondents in ...
... Taxes were voted to be needless burdens , courts of justice to be intolerable grievances , and lawyers a common nuisance . These doctrines were embraced by at least twelve thousand men in the New England States , with correspondents in ...
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... taxation the money which they appropriated , and in them and the offices which they created ambitious men preferred to seek employment . Congress was so much despised that it became almost impossible to collect a quorum , and more than ...
... taxation the money which they appropriated , and in them and the offices which they created ambitious men preferred to seek employment . Congress was so much despised that it became almost impossible to collect a quorum , and more than ...
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... taxation . The States would have been engaged in constant quarrels over retaliatory legislation . Travellers and goods would have been stopped by custom - houses at the border of each State . Peace in the South after the close of our ...
... taxation . The States would have been engaged in constant quarrels over retaliatory legislation . Travellers and goods would have been stopped by custom - houses at the border of each State . Peace in the South after the close of our ...
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Page 371 - Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall, from time to time, direct and appoint.
Page 285 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 283 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties, appertaining to them.
Page 206 - Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 370 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 8 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 84 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Page 285 - That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party : That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 66 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 370 - ... in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any Person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.