Show OF 01 EMINENT DOMAIN T tl right rig lit of eminent domain is the i glit of the state to take private prop arty for public use upon making in 0 ue campens compensation aaion ever species of property except mon mom y and rights in action is subject t P this right it can be exercised only in accordance with legis 14 etive enactment nt by judicial proc croci din ding and for some public use the most important often public rights consist in the use 01 0 public highways 0 by laud land and wa water e legislation Lem tl which permits it s r y 0 owe I 1 iha lie united states mav may construct fortresses lighthouses piers 1 docks military roads public buildings buil dins etc and for these may have need of land or material which the owner refuses to sell then this the land etc may be taken and paid for by the government f in some cases even a private corporation created by law to supply some public convenience may be endowed with this power as a railroad company empowered by bv legislation to appropriate a a ri right ht of way to its own use TAXES 1 the right of taxation is the right of the state to impose burdens on property of the subjects in order to raise money for public purposes taxing 0 may ma be either direct as upon persons salaries and land or indirect as in taxes on imports and other articles of consumption in all cases it must be ro strict accordance cor dance with legislative and for public purposes purpose 5 alone the united states has no power to tax the means by which tile the states perform their governmental functions because if it could the latter might be embarrassed and perhaps wholly paralyzed by the burdens it might impose the united states stales cannot tax a state municipal corporation or its resources or the salary of a state officer or the pro pro ems of state court or a railroad owned by a state and EO on and on the other hand a state stale cannot tax the salary of federal officers or the bond issued by the united states or the revenue stamps st amps or treasury rv notes or a bank created by b y the united states as its fiscal agent and so on that the power to tax involves the power to destroy that tile the people to destroy may defeat and ant I 1 render useless the power to create that there is a plain repugnance pug nance to conferring on oil one government a power to co control atrol the constitutional measures of another which other in int respect to those very measures is declared to be supreme arl are propositions positions pr 0 not to be denied supreme court |