...which it is applicable, to the utmost extent to which the government may choose to carry it. * * * The people of a state, therefore, give to their government...their property, and as the exigencies of government cannot be limited, they prescribe no limits to the exercise of this right, resting confidently on the...

...United States in Baltimore. The Supreme Court held that it could not. Chief Justice Marshall said : "The people of a State, therefore, give to their government...their property ; and as the exigencies of government cannot be limited, they prescribe no limits as to the exercise of this right, resting confidently on...

...United States in Baltimore. The Supreme Court held that it could not. Chief Justice Marshall said : "The people of a State, therefore, give to their government...their property ; and as the exigencies of government cannot be limited, they prescribe no limits as to the exercise of this right, resting confidently on...

...taxation, which is acknowledged to remain with the states. It is admitted, that the power of taxing the people and their property, is essential to the very...their property, and as the exigencies of government cannot be limited, they prescribe no limits to the exercise of this right, resting confidently on the...

...legislature acts upon its constiti This is, in general, a sufficient security against erroneous and oppr< taxation. The people of a state, therefore, give to their government a right of t themselves and their property, and as the exigencies of government cann limited, they prescribe no...

...legislature acts upon its constituí This is, in general, a sufficient security against erroneous and oppres taxation. The people of a state, therefore, give to their government a right of ta themselves and their property, and as the exigencies of government canna limited, they prescribe...

...questions of taxation. In rendering the decision Chief Justice Marshall held, among other things, that "the people of a state, therefore, give to their government...their property, and as the exigencies of government cannot be limited, they prescribe no limits to the exercise of this right, resting confidently on the...

...authority adds (p. 428) : Opinion of the Court — Wallace, J. * The only security against the abuse of the power is found in the structure of the Government...their property, and as the exigencies of Government cannot be limited, they prescribe no limits to the exercise of this right, resting confidently on the...

...of this power is found in the structure of the Government itself. In imposing a tax the Government acts upon its constituents. This is, in general, a...themselves and their property; and as the exigencies of the Government cannot be limited, they prescribe no limits to the exercise of this right, resting confidently...

...abuse" of the federal taxing power resided in "the structure of the government itself." The people "give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their property, . . . resting confidently on the interest of the legislator, and on the influence of the constituent...