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" That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another,... "
Daniel Webster: The Expounder of the Constitution - Page 23
by Everett Pepperrell Wheeler - 1904 - 188 pages
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Niles' National Register, Volume 16

1819 - 660 pages
...a fair construction of the constitution? That the power to tax involves the power to destroy; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless...a plain repugnance in conferring on one government :x power to controul the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very...
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Niles' National Register, Volume 16

1819 - 652 pages
...power to create; that there isa plain repug lance in confcrringon one government a power to cont'-oul the constitutional measures of another, which other,...very measures, is declared to be supreme, over that whiol» exerts the controul, arc proposition* not to be^denied. But ail inconsistencies are to be rccnnciloti...
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Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated

John Taylor - United States - 1820 - 378 pages
...following quotation from its opinion. " That the power " to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to " destroy may defeat and render useless...that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one govern" ment a power to controul the constitutional measures of ano" ther, which other, with respect...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...destroy, and the power to destroy might defeat and render useless the power to create. There would be a plain repugnance in conferring on one government...which other, with respect to those very measures, was declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control. If the right of the states to tax the...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...and, if admitted, it would enable the subordinate sovereignty to annul the powers of the superior. There is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government...measures of another, which other, with respect to these very measures, is declared to be supreme over that, which exerts the control. 2 For instance,...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to these very measures, is declared to be supreme over that, which exerts the control.2 For instance, the states have acknowledgedly a concurrent power of taxation. But it is wholly...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...government to execute its own powers ; for such a power to tax involves a power to destroy ; and this power to destroy may defeat, and render useless the power to create. Thus, a state may not tax the mail, the mint, patent rights, customhouse papers, or judicial process...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...a fair construction of the constitution. That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless...exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied. But all inconsistencies are to be reconciled by the magic of the word CONFIDENCE. Taxation, it is said,...
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An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of ...

George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...fair construction of the Constitution. " That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render 'useless...that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on our government the power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect...
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De Bow's Commercial Review of the South & West, Volume 3

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1847 - 640 pages
...Maryland, already cited, '.he Court held that the power to tax, involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create, and that there would be a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the Constitutional...
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