M'Culloch v. Maryland · ¶71

The objections to.the constitution which are noticed in these numbers, were to the undefined power of the government to tax, not to the incidental privilege of exempting its.own measures from State taxation,. Thé consequences apprehended from this undefined power were, that it would absorb all thfe objects of taxation, “ to the exclusion and destruction of the State governments.” The arguments of the Federalist are. intended to prove the fallacy of these apprehensions; not to prove that tire government was incapable of executing any of its powers, without exposing the.means it employed' to the embarrassments of State taxation. Arguments urged against these objections, and these apprehensions, are to be understood as relating to the points, they mean to prove. Had the authors of those excellent essays been asked, whether they contended for that construction of the constitutiofi, which t…

U. S. Reports, bound volume
U. S. Reports, volume 17, at 316 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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