FEDERALIST No.33 The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation)

To the People of the State of New York：

THE residue of the argument against the provisions of the Constitution in respect to taxation is ingrafted upon the following clause. The last clause of the eighth section of the first article authorizes the national legislature “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers by that Constitution vested in the government of the United States， or in any department or officer thereof”; and the second clause of the sixth article declares that “the Constitution and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof and the treaties made by their authority shall be the supreme law of the land， anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”

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