Quote#Politics & Power
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to…
Quote byMelville Fuller · 1833–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429 (1895). Essentially overturned by the Sixteenth Amendment in 1909.
English (original)
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States.
— Melville Fuller
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