 | 1819 - 660 страница
...pursuance thereof, to be supreme; but this principle would transfer the supremacy in fact to the states. If the states may tax one instrument employed by the...may tax patent rights, they may tax the papers of tke custom-house, they may tax judicial process, they may tax all the means employed by the government,... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 страница
...should 4je the supreme law of the land, would be empty and unmeaning declamation. If the states might tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they might tai every other instrument. They might tax the mail ; they might tax the mint ; they might tax... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 страница
...these very measures was declared to be supreme over that which exerted a control. If the states might tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they might tax any and every other instrument; the mail, the mint, patent rights, papers of the custom house,... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 550 страница
...this position the reasoning and conclusion of the Chief-Justice are too strong to be shaken : — " If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers," he says, " they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1854 - 862 страница
...•" * . • ' 498 SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. Padelford, Fay k Co. w. Mayor and Aid. City Savannah. .^ the Government, in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other. They may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint ; they may tax all the means employed by the Government,... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 страница
...this position the reasoning and conclusion of the Chief- Justice are too strong to be shaken : — " If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execntion of its powers," he says, " they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 страница
...right to punish those who steal letters from the post-office, or rob the mail. States may tax oiie instrument employed by the Government in the execution...tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patentrights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process ; they may... | |
 | 1863 - 832 страница
...As the right never existed, the question whether it has been surrendered cannot arise. Hetheusays: "If the States may tax one instrument employed by...the custom-house ; they may tax judicial process," &c., p. 432. After explaining some passages in the Federalist, which some had supposed conflicted with... | |
 | 1863 - 830 страница
...the right never existed, the question whether i: has been surrendered cannot arise. He then says : " If the States may tax one instrument employed by the...may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint ; they may lax patent rights ; they may tax the papers of the custom-house ; they may tax judicial process," &c.,... | |
 | James Kent - 1866 - 724 страница
...should be the supreme law of the land, would be empty and unmeaning declamation. If the states might tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they might tax * every other instrument. They * 427 might tax the mail ; they might tax the mint ; they... | |
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If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom... 
