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Quotation from McCulloch v. Maryland by Supreme Court of the United States
“That the power to tax involves the power to destroy; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create”
McCulloch v. Maryland, Opinion of the Court (Marshall, C.J.), second question (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Marshall gives the reason a state may not tax the operations of a federal institution.
Citation: "That the power to tax involves the power to destroy; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create" — Supreme Court of the United States, McCulloch v. Maryland, Opinion of the Court (Marshall, C.J.), second question (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id mcculloch-v-maryland-q3)
Portrait: John Marshall by Henry Inman, 1832, Henry Inman, Public domain.
