On the record
This provision plainly authorizes no taxation whatever, except for the raising of revenue to pay the debts and legitimate expenses of the government.
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Lysander Spooner
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Editor's note · Context
Spooner interprets the constitutional provision as limiting taxation to legitimate government expenses.
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