 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Howard Dickman - 1989 - 210 páginas
...Samuel Miller, who had written the majority opinion in the Slaughterhouse Cases, acknowledged that "it may not be easy to draw the line in all cases...what is a public purpose in this sense and what is not."58 Justice Stephen J. Field, supposedly a paragon of laissez-faire, strenuously defended the states'... | |
 | 1997 - 446 páginas
...in Action," University of Pennsylvania Law Rerieu' and American LJW Regitter, 7-4 (May 1926), 669. to draw the line in all cases so as to decide what is a public use in this sense and what is not."92 By declining to hand down a firm rule specifying the exact boundaries... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 2003 - 804 páginas
...the power to tax, the court declare it to be " beyond cavil that there can be no lawful tax.-which is not laid for a public purpose. It may not be easy...is a public purpose in this sense, and what is not. It is undoubtedly the duty of the legislature, which imposes or authorizes municipalities to impose... | |
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We have established, we think, beyond cavil, that there can be no lawful tax which is not laid for a public purpose. It may not be easy to draw the line in all cases, so as to decide what is a public purpose in this sense, and what is not. 
