 | Pennsylvania - 1904 - 190 pages
...Bradley, "The provision in the fourteenth amendment, that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was...certain classes of property from any taxation at all * * * may impose different specific taxes upon 124 different trades and professions, and may vary the... | |
 | 1904 - 998 pages
...of equal taxation. The range of the state's power was expressed by Mr. Justice Bradley as follows: "It may, if It chooses, exempt certain classes of...specific taxes upon different trades and professions, and vary the rates of excise upon various products. It may tax real estate and personal property in a different... | |
 | 1906 - 812 pages
...cannot be said to be an arbitrary selection or not to rest on reasonable grounds, and the 14th Amendment was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting...system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways, or, through the undoubted power of classification, to impose different taxes upon different trades... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1906 - 1434 pages
...cannot be said to be an arbitrary selection or not to rest on reasonable grounds, and the 14th Amendment was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting its system of taxation in ยป11 proper and reasonable waya, or, through tbt undoubted power of classification, to impose different... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1906 - 724 pages
...76. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution was not designed or intended to prevent the State from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways, nor intended to compel it to adopt an iron rule of equality, to prevent the classification of property... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1906 - 726 pages
...76. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution was not designed or intended to prevent the State from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways, nor intended to compel it to adopt an iron rule of equality, to prevent the classification of property... | |
 | United States. Courts - 1907 - 1088 pages
...Pennsylvania, 1^4 US 232, in which it was said not to have been intended to prevent a State from changing its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable...if it chooses, exempt certain classes of property altogether: may impose different specific taxes upon different trades or professions; may vary the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1908 - 1208 pages
...533, 33 L. ed. 892, in which it was said not to have been intended to prevent a state from changing its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable...if it chooses, exempt certain classes of property altogether; may impose different specific taxes upon different trades or professions; may vary the... | |
 | Leslie Jay Tompkins - 1908 - 1188 pages
...the unit rule, denies the equal protection of the laws. That provision in the fourteenth amendment " was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting...system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways," nor was that amendment " intended to compel a state to adopt an iron rule of equal taxation." Bell's... | |
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Amendment, that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways. 
