 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 788 pages
...important 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 not to be distinguished, in any particular material to the present inquiry, from the... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1882 - 796 pages
...which it is the very purpose of organized government to meet and overcome. To assure the public safety, therefore, dictates that the State be clothed with...deficiency in this particular, one of two evils must ensue; cither the people must be subjected to continual plunder as a substitute for a more eligible mode of... | |
 | 1885 - 892 pages
...procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will p?rmit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in...plunder, as a substitute for a more eligible mode of supplving the public wants, or the government must sink into a fatal atrophy, and in a short course... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - 1885 - 760 pages
...essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regnlar and adequate supply of revenue, as far ' as the resources of the community will permit,...deficiency in this particular, one of two evils must necessarily ensue: either the people must be subjected to continual plunder, or the government must... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1886 - 652 pages
...be interwoven, in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation, in one shape or another. Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital...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... | |
 | James Madison, John Jay - 1888 - 676 pages
...be interwoven, in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation, in one shape or another. Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital...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, John Jay, James Madison - 1894 - 980 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... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 pages
...be interwoven in the frame of the government a general power of taxation, in one shape or another. Money is with propriety considered as the vital principle...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pages
...be interwoven in the frame of the government a general power of taxation, in one shape or another. Money is with propriety considered as the vital principle...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 - 1901 - 536 pages
...must be interwoven in the frame of the government a general power of taxation in one shape or another. Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital...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... | |
| |
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... 
