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1.1 root 1: #print
2: You can of course combine many files. Make a file
3: "total" which contains the pieces "first", "second",
4: "third", and "fourth" in that order. Then type "ready".
5: #create Ref
6: It has been already observed that the federal government
7: ought to possess the power of providing for the support
8: of the national forces; in which proposition was intended
9: to be included the expense of raising troops, of building
10: and equipping fleets, and all other expenses in any wise
11: connected with military arrangements and operations. But
12: these are not the only objects to which the jurisdiction of
13: the Union in respect to revenue must necessarily be empowered
14: to extend. It must embrace a provision for the
15: support of the national civil list; for the payment of the
16: national debts contracted, or that may be contracted;
17: and, in general, for all those matters which will call for
18: disbursements out of the national treasury. The conclusion
19: is that there must be interwoven in the frame of the
20: government a general power of taxation, in one shape or
21: another.
22: Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle
23: of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and
24: motion and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
25: A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular
26: and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources
27: of the community will permit, may be regarded
28: as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.
29: From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils
30: must ensue: either the people must be subjected to
31: continual plunder, as a substitute for a more eligible
32: mode of supplying the public wants, or the government
33: must sink into a fatal atrophy, and, in a short course of
34: time, perish.
35: In the Ottoman or Turkish empire the sovereign,
36: though in other respects absolute master of the lives and
37: fortunes of his subjects, has no right to impose a new tax.
38: The consequence is that he permits the bashaws or governors
39: of provinces to pillage the people at discretion,
40: and, in turn, squeezes out of them the sums of which he
41: stands in need to satisfy his own exigencies and those of
42: the state. In America, from a like cause, the government
43: of the Union has gradually dwindled into a state of decay,
44: approaching nearly to annihilation. Who can doubt that
45: the happiness of the people in both countries would be
46: promoted by competent authorities in the proper hands
47: to provide the revenues which the necessities of the public
48: might require?
49: The present Confederation, feeble as it is, intended to
50: repose in the United States an unlimited power of providing
51: for the pecuniary wants of the Union. But proceeding
52: upon an erroneous principle, it has been done in
53: such a manner as entirely to have frustrated the intention.
54: #create first
55: It has been already observed that the federal government
56: ought to possess the power of providing for the support
57: of the national forces; in which proposition was intended
58: to be included the expense of raising troops, of building
59: and equipping fleets, and all other expenses in any wise
60: connected with military arrangements and operations. But
61: these are not the only objects to which the jurisdiction of
62: the Union in respect to revenue must necessarily be empowered
63: to extend. It must embrace a provision for the
64: support of the national civil list; for the payment of the
65: national debts contracted, or that may be contracted;
66: and, in general, for all those matters which will call for
67: disbursements out of the national treasury. The conclusion
68: is that there must be interwoven in the frame of the
69: government a general power of taxation, in one shape or
70: another.
71: #create fourth
72: The present Confederation, feeble as it is, intended to
73: repose in the United States an unlimited power of providing
74: for the pecuniary wants of the Union. But proceeding
75: upon an erroneous principle, it has been done in
76: such a manner as entirely to have frustrated the intention.
77: #create second
78: Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle
79: of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and
80: motion and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
81: A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular
82: and adequate supply of revenue, as far as the resources
83: of the community will permit, may be regarded
84: as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.
85: From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils
86: must ensue: either the people must be subjected to
87: continual plunder, as a substitute for a more eligible
88: mode of supplying the public wants, or the government
89: must sink into a fatal atrophy, and, in a short course of
90: time, perish.
91: #create third
92: In the Ottoman or Turkish empire the sovereign,
93: though in other respects absolute master of the lives and
94: fortunes of his subjects, has no right to impose a new tax.
95: The consequence is that he permits the bashaws or governors
96: of provinces to pillage the people at discretion,
97: and, in turn, squeezes out of them the sums of which he
98: stands in need to satisfy his own exigencies and those of
99: the state. In America, from a like cause, the government
100: of the Union has gradually dwindled into a state of decay,
101: approaching nearly to annihilation. Who can doubt that
102: the happiness of the people in both countries would be
103: promoted by competent authorities in the proper hands
104: to provide the revenues which the necessities of the public
105: might require?
106: #user
107: #cmp total Ref
108: #next
109: 60.2c 5
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