FEDERALIST No.32 The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation)

To the People of the State of New York：

ALTHOUGH I am of opinion that there would be no real danger of the consequences which seem to be apprehended to the State governments from a power in the Union to control them in the levies of money， because I am persuaded that the sense of the people， the extreme hazard of provoking the resentments of the State governments， and a conviction of the utility and necessity of local administrations for local purposes， would be a complete barrier against the oppressive use of such a power; yet I am willing here to allow， in its full extent， the justness of the reasoning which requires that the individual States should possess an independent and uncontrollable authority to raise their own revenues for the supply of their own ......     （共7446字）    [阅读本文]>>