There would seem to have been no need for this since, though Harvey may have tried to levy taxes on his own responsibility, there is no evidence that Berkeley made such an attempt.
The question of who was to receive the revenues and who to decide upon their use was second in importance only to who had the right to levy taxes.
Naturally the newspapers protested and the lawyers argued that the Stamp Act was unconstitutional, that Parliament had no right to levy taxes on the colonies.
In order to protect the confederation the government has the right to levy taxes, and the most convenient form is that of imposts or taxes on importations.
How can they, as well as the Government, presume to levy taxes on the people?
But the establishment of a bank is neither levying taxes nor borrowing money; nor is the law incorporating the bank a law to levy taxes, or a law to borrow money.
The constitution gives to Congress the power to levy taxes, and also the power to borrow money.
In the first place, the Articles of Confederation gave Congress no power to levy taxes of any kind.
They were to make treaties with the Indians, regulate the affairs of the colonies as a whole, levy taxes, build forts, and raise armies.
The Legislative powers, to regulate commerce with foreign nations, to levy taxes, appropriate money, &c.
Having no power to levy taxes, the people of Alaska are wholly dependent upon the General Government, to whose revenues the seal fisheries make a large annual contribution.
Congress is only authorized to levy taxes "to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States".
Proper restrictions as to the power to levy taxes and to create debt should be imposed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "levy taxes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
