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Quotation from Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. by Supreme Court of the United States
“If it be true that the constitution should have been so framed that a tax of this kind could be laid, the instrument defines the way for its amendment.”
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., Opinion of the Court on rehearing (Chief Justice Fuller) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute))
Fuller answers the argument that the nation needs an income tax by pointing to Article V.
Citation: "If it be true that the constitution should have been so framed that a tax of this kind could be laid, the instrument defines the way for its amendment." — Supreme Court of the United States, Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., Opinion of the Court on rehearing (Chief Justice Fuller) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute)). (id pollock-v-farmers-loan-and-trust-q3)
Portrait: Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice 1908, Theodore C. Marceau, Public domain.
