[Lurking Libertarian]

After doing some scratching about that case, I now have evidence that none of the three branches of the early federal government were interpreting the fed's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had intended for those tax-limiting powers to be understood imo.

Look at the names of the Justices who decided the Hylton case. Then look at a list of the signers of the Constitution. Notice anything?

Hint: of the four justices who decided Hylton (the Court had several vacancies at the time), two were delegates to the Constitutional Convention. They both agreed with the other two justices that a federal tax on carriages ($16 per carriage, a huge sum in the 1790s) was constitutional under Article I, section 8.

[foreverfree]

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