 | 1802 - 344 pages
...essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will permit,...substitute for a more eligible mode of supplying the pulic wants, or the government must sink into a fatal atrophy, and in a short course of time perish.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 568 pages
...interwoven in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation in one shape or another. tution. From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils...public wants, or the government must sink into a fatal atroph y, and in a short course of time perish. In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 880 pages
...essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will permit,...a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils mustensue ; either the people must be subjected to continual plunder, as a substitute for a more eligible... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - 1826 - 736 pages
...essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure -a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will permit,...fatal atrophy, and in a short course of time perish. In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the. sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1831 - 758 pages
...essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, us far as the resources of the community will permit,...fatal atrophy, and in a short course of time perish. In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives... | |
 | William Paley - 1835 - 298 pages
...essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will permit,...fatal atrophy, and in a short course of time perish. "§ This power is generally vested in a government under the appellation of taxation. The term taxes... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 518 pages
...essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will permit,...must ensue ; either the people must be subjected to can.i tinual plunder, as a substitute for a more eligible mode of supplying the public wants, or the... | |
 | 1842 - 492 pages
...essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue,' as far as the resources of the community will permit,...fatal atrophy, and in a short course of time perish. In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives... | |
 | 1847 - 640 pages
...functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far the resources of the community will permit, may be...an indispensable ingredient in every Constitution." — Federalist, p. 112 and 117, ed 1845. Under this view of the subject, the Legislature, carrying... | |
 | 1852 - 530 pages
...essential functions. A complete jwwer therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will permit,...fatal atrophy, and in a short course of time perish. In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives... | |
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A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution. From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils... 
