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... issued for loans made to the government of the United States liable to be taxed by States and corporations ? Congress has power " to borrow money on the credit of the United States . " The stock it issues is the evidence of a debt ...
... issued for loans made to the government of the United States liable to be taxed by States and corporations ? Congress has power " to borrow money on the credit of the United States . " The stock it issues is the evidence of a debt ...
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... issued for circulation , after the day named in the act . The Veazie Bank was a corporation chartered by the State of Maine , with authority to issue bank notes for circulation , and the notes on which the tax imposed by the act was ...
... issued for circulation , after the day named in the act . The Veazie Bank was a corporation chartered by the State of Maine , with authority to issue bank notes for circulation , and the notes on which the tax imposed by the act was ...
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... issued by numerous independ- ent corporations variously organized under State legislation , of various degrees of credit , and very unequal resources , administered often with great , and not unfrequently , with little skill , prudence ...
... issued by numerous independ- ent corporations variously organized under State legislation , of various degrees of credit , and very unequal resources , administered often with great , and not unfrequently , with little skill , prudence ...
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... issued under this act were treasury notes , payable on demand in coin . The amount authorized by it was $ 50,000,000 , and was increased by the act of February 12th , 18623 to $ 60,000,000 . On the 31st of December , 1861 , the State ...
... issued under this act were treasury notes , payable on demand in coin . The amount authorized by it was $ 50,000,000 , and was increased by the act of February 12th , 18623 to $ 60,000,000 . On the 31st of December , 1861 , the State ...
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... issued under the franchise , or power to issue bank bills . A railroad company , in the exercise of its corporate franchises , issues freight receipts , bills of lading , and passenger tickets ; and it cannot be doubted that the ...
... issued under the franchise , or power to issue bank bills . A railroad company , in the exercise of its corporate franchises , issues freight receipts , bills of lading , and passenger tickets ; and it cannot be doubted that the ...
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Страница 179 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Страница 317 - This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Страница 163 - But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist...
Страница 320 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Страница 507 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties,...
Страница 40 - The result is a conviction that the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Страница 305 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Страница 594 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states ; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Страница 421 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the' charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly or as incidental to its very existence.
Страница 322 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.