...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...subjected to continual plunder as a substitute for a more elegible mode of supplying the public wants, or the government must sink into a fatal atrophy, and...

...the vital principle of the body politic" (187-93). It follows, he adds, that "a complete power ... to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as...an indispensable ingredient in every constitution." A government without adequate funds, says Hamilton, is a pitiful sight. "How can it ever possess either...

...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,...constitution. From a deficiency in this particular, one or two evils must ensue: either the people must be subjected to continual plunder, as a substitute...

...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 4. For a provocative summary, see Levi 1988. See also Webber and Wildavsky 1986; Burkhead 1956; Schick...

...be attended with fewer inconveniences than to leave that discretion altogether at large. (No. 2 1) MONEY is with propriety considered as the vital principle...fatal atrophy, and in a short course of time perish. (No. 30) A GOVERNMENT ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of...

...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 niust ensue: either the people must be subjected to continual plunder, as a substitute for a more eligible...

...force to ward off hostile nations. "[O]ne of two evils must ensue," Hamilton wrote in Federalist 30, "either the people must be subjected to continual...into a fatal atrophy, and, in a short course of time, perish."s Alternatively, an America that mobilized its boundless material resources through public...

...the government: "A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources of the community will permit,...an indispensable ingredient in every constitution." Obviously, the unlimited power to tax and borrow, and the creation of a bank would help accomplish...

...essential functions. A complete power therefore to procure a regular and adequate supply of revenue, ammond [. . .] The present confederation, feeble as it is, intended to repose in the United States, an unlimited...

...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...constitution. From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evilsmust ensue : either the people must be subjected to continual plunder as a substitute for a more...