The Administration of Justice: Address (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Did the decisions, or either of them, on the constitutionality of taxation of incomes do any good? And would any harm have been done if they had been the other way? No constitutional amendment would have been necessary, but what of it? Would any one have been injured if he were validly taxed under the constitution as it stood, rather than under an amendment? And does it feel any more pleasant or hurt any less to pay an income tax than if it had been levied under the document of the Fathers?

Did the Dred Scott decision settle anything? Perhaps it hastened an inevitable conflict, but did it do more? Was the conflict not inevitable under any decision, and was it rendered less intense, costly, bloody, terrible by the decision actually give?

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