The Federalist Papers · Federalist No. 31 · paragraph 8
As revenue is the essential engine by which the means of answering the national exigencies must be procured, the power of procuring that article in its full extent must necessarily be comprehended in that of providing for those exigencies.Read in context ›
Publius · Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison · 1787–1788
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