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concurrent and coequal in the Fœderal and the State authorities, No. XXXI. 200
a. it has not been exclusively granted to the Union, 200
b. it has not been prohibited to the several States, 200
c. it is a necessary deduction from the particular restraint which has been imposed on the States concerning duties on exports and imports, 200
i. the contrary would be an unnecessary restraint on the States, 201
ii. it would also be a dangerous restraint on them, 201
iii. "the restriction in question is a negative pregnant," 201
d. there is no repugnancy between the authority to levy taxes by the Fœderal authorities, and that under which the State governments do the same, 202
e. concurrent authority to levy taxes the necessary result of a division of the sovereign power, 202
i. objection to the delegation of incidental powers of taxation to the Fœderal government considered, 203
a. no authority delegated which it would not have necessarily possessed, 203
b. the authority to levy taxes carries with it all the incidental authority which may be necessary and proper to carry it into execution, 204
c. the express delegation of incidental authority an act of caution, 205
d. the Fœderal authorities must judge, in the first instance, what may be necessary and proper powers for them to exercise, 205
e. the constituents of that government must be the ultimate judge of the necessity and propriety of employing such powers, 205
A. how the constitutional impropriety of a Fœderal measure must be determined, 206
B. instances wherein such impropriety would be evident, 206
j. objection, that the laws of the Union concerning taxation are supreme, considered, 206
a. any other than supreme laws would be useless, 206
b. all laws must, necessarily, be supreme to those to whom they apply, 206
c. "acts which are not pursuant to the Constitution are merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such," 207
d. the new system "expressly confines this supremacy to laws made pursuant to the Constitution," 207
e. any act of the United States which interferes with a