Parliamentary Debates, Том 19

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Printed and published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by J. Kemp, 1904
 

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Сторінка 1702 - 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-house ; they may tax judicial process ; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. (This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government...
Сторінка 1701 - The sovereignty of a state extends to everything which exists by its own authority, or is introduced by its permission; but does it extend to those means which are employed by congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States?
Сторінка 1701 - We are not driven to the perplexing inquiry, so unfit for the judicial department, what degree of taxation is the legitimate use, and what degree may amount to the abuse of the power.
Сторінка 1701 - All subjects over which the sovereign power of a state extends are objects of taxation, but those over which it <loes not extend are, upon the soundest principles, exempt from taxation.
Сторінка 1703 - ... (This great principle is, that the constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof are supreme ; that they control the constitution and laws of the respective states, and cannot be controlled by them.
Сторінка 1701 - ... in a State, by the extent of sovereignty which the people of a single State possess, and can confer on its government, we have an intelligible standard applicable to every case to which the power may be applied. We have a principle which leaves the power of taxing the people and property of a State unimpaired ; which leaves to a State the command of all its resources, and which places beyond its reach, all those powers which are conferred by the people of the United States on the government of...
Сторінка 1739 - Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State.
Сторінка 1702 - If we apply the principle for which the State of Maryland contends, to the Constitution generally, we shall find it capable of changing totally the character of that instrument.
Сторінка 1699 - When a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth, the latter shall prevail, and the former shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid.
Сторінка 1574 - One of the greatest dangers, therefore, of democracy, as of all other forms of government, lies in the sinister interest of the holders of power : it is the danger of class legislation ; of government intended for (whether really effecting it or not) the immediate benefit of the dominant class, to the lasting detriment of the whole.

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