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"The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets."
![]() By: | ![]() James Madison (more quotes by James Madison or books by/about James Madison) |
![]() | ![]() (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President |
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