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assented to than those of other branches of knowledge, | No. XXX. | 194 |
c. the reason for that diversity of opinion in morals and politics is the passions and prejudices of the reasoner, | 194 | |
d. the same influences prevail among the opponents of the new system, | 194 | |
A. the reasoning of the anti-Fœderalists reviewed, | 194 | |
B. their fairness, in argument, considered, | 195 | |
C. a review of Publius's arguments on the powers of the government, | 197 | |
D. a review of the anti-Fœderal arguments on the probability of usurpation by the Fœderal government, | 197 | |
E. a review of the arguments on the probable aggressions of the State governments on the Fœderal authority, | 197 | |
a. the sympathy of the People with the State governments, | 197 | |
h. objection, that such a power in the Fœderal government would interfere with the State governments in their levies of money, considered, | XXXI. | 198 |
a. the sense of the People, a barrier to the oppressive use of this power by the Fœderal authorities, | 198 | |
b. the hazard of provoking the resentments of the State governments, another barrier thereto, | 198 | |
c. a conviction of the utility and necessity of local administrations, for local purposes, a third barrier thereto, | 198 | |
d. the several States would still retain an independent and uncontrollable authority to raise their own revenues, | 198 | |
A. an attempt, by the Fœderal authorities, to abridge that authority will be a violent assumption of unconstitutional power, | 199 | |
B. the sovereignty of the Fœderal authorities limited in extent, | 199 | |
a. "where the Constitution in express terms grants an exclusive authority to the Union," | 199 | |
b. "where it grants an authority to the Union and prohibits the States from exercising the like authority," | 199 | |
c. "where it grants an authority to the Union, to which a similar authority in the States would be absolutely and totally contradictory and repugnant," | 199 | |
C. the only exclusive power of taxation which is delegated to the Fœderal government is that of imposing taxes on imports, | 200 | |
D. the authority to impose taxes on all other articles is |