...law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. * * * We have established, we think, beyond cavil, that...is a public purpose in this sense and what is not. * * * The theory of our governments, State and national, is opposed to the deposit of unlimited power...

...forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. " We have established, we think, beyond cavil, that there can be no lawful tax when is not laid for a public purpose. It may not be easy to draw the line in all cases so as to decide...

...and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. ******* " We have established, we think, beyond cavil, that...is a public purpose in this sense and what is not." Again in Cole v. LaGrange (113 US 1, 28 L. ed. 896) the Supreme Court said: " The general grant of...

...extrahazardous industry can be invoked to create an insurance fund, the Act is nugatory. Beyond doubt, there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose. "What is a public purpose? Having determined that the general design of the Act may be upheld as a...

...provisions is supported in principle by the following opinions of the Supreme Court Justices quoted : "There can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose." (Justice Miller, 20 Wallace 655 ; 1874) ; and again : "Tax — as used in the Constitution, signifies...

...the government in all its machinery and operations — that they are imposed for a public purpose." We have established, we think, beyond cavil that there...lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose. [20 Wall. 66264] In both cases, the opinions taking the opposite view of legislative power simply ignore...

...Samuel Miller, who had written the majority opinion in the Slaughterhouse Cases, acknowledged that "it may not be easy to draw the line in all cases...what is a public purpose in this sense and what is not."58 Justice Stephen J. Field, supposedly a paragon of laissez-faire, strenuously defended the states'...

...authorities and a discussion of the power to tax, laid it down as an established principle that "beyond cavil there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose." In Re Mayor of New York, 11 Johns. 80, the court said: "The word 'taxes' means burdens, charges of...

...""87 US (20 Wall.) 655 (1875). committed tax revenues to assist a private manufacturer, and because "there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose. "m As Clifford alone protested in an unwontedly cogent and concise dissent,1"3 Miller nowhere tied...

...v. Bull and Fletcher v. Peck. committed tax revenues to assist a private manufacturer, and because "there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose."102 As Clifford alone protested in an unwontedly cogent and concise dissent,103 Miller nowhere...