In other words, our political machine actually favors such laws, because they put a club in the hands of the machine through which it can not only levy political contributions, but coerce their victims into support of the machine.
Whether they mutually devour one another or levy tribute on the plant, they invariably quicken themselves with the stimulant of the sun's heat, a heat stored in grass, fruit, seed and those which feed on such.
Russia, in anticipation of a rupture, began to arm, and ordered a levy of four men out of every hundred.
The king, Ysiaslaf, called for a levyen masse, of the inhabitants of Kief, summoned distant feudal barons with their armies to his banner, and marched impetuously to meet the conquering foe.
A fortune of a quarter of a million, encumbered only by a wife and one daughter, and very diversely invested, afforded substantial guarantee even against that "wildcat notion" a levy on capital.
Gradman said suddenly: "If they were makin' a levy on capital, they could come on the trustees, sir.
There was satisfaction in the thought that neither he nor his trusts had an investment which could be affected by anything less maniacal than national repudiation or a levy on capital.
The right to make treaties, declare war, levy taxes, exercise judicial and legislative powers, were all functions of sovereign power.
Henry, by the feudal customs, was entitled to levy a tax for the marrying of his eldest daughter, and he exacted three shillings a hide on all England.
His office also impowered him to guard the rights of the crown in the county, and to levy the fines imposed, which in that age formed no contemptible part of the public revenue.
The king bound himself not to grant any writ, empowering a baron to levy aids from his vassals, except in the three feudal cases.
Irish Parliament to have power to levy any other taxes.
Lawrence Levy became the amateur champion weight lifter of the world.
Of the recognised records for weight-lifting he held as many as nine; but Mr. Levy did not confine himself to one branch of gymnastics, nor made gymnastics his only athletic exercise.
With these Mr. Levy began quietly practising, one at a time.
To my readers I commend Mr. Levy as an example of what pluck and perseverance will do when used to a rational end.
Later, the hall became the Levy Opera House, but with the coming of the movies its public functions declined.
With the exception of the Civil War period, when it was confiscated by the Confederate Government, it remained in the Levy family until sold to the Monticello Memorial Foundation, 1923.
The meeting was held in the old Levy Opera House, now the Park View Apts.
About 1762, a body of enterprising citizens secured private acts of Parliament which allowed them to levy a house tax in return for providing paving and lighting, which then greatly improved, as did sanitation.
Treason to the king is to compass, imagine, or intend death or any bodily harm tending to death, or maiming or wounding, or imprisonment, or restraint as well as trying to depose him or levy war against him.
Some private citizens of various towns followed the example of London and obtained from Parliament the right to levy a house rate for paving and lighting.
The king may not levy money or extend an authorized levywithout consent of Parliament.
And none shall levy such aid to make his son a knight until his son is 15 years old, nor to marry his daughter until she is seven year old.
When the government tried to levy excise taxes on wine, tobacco, and then on cider, there was a public protest with mobs demonstrating against the power given to excise inspectors to search in people's homes.
The Mayor and citizens of London were given authority in 1642 to fortify all highways leading to the city and levy a tax on inhabitants for this purpose.
Come with us and levy contributions, that we and you may dwell in plenty together.
A rising of considerable magnitude in 1497 at the instigation of Thomas Flamank, occasioned by the levy of a tax for the Scottish war, was only repelled after the arrival of the insurgents at Blackheath in Kent.
The Genoese attempted to levy a tax which the Corsicans refused to pay; in violation of the terms of the treaty, which had stipulated for a universal amnesty, they confiscated the property of Sampiero da Bastelica.
I ask, when you levy a tax, if you do not provide officers for collecting it.
To this it is replied that to create a National Bank is to legislate by implication; it is a separate, substantive, and independent power; to levy a tax is one thing, to make a bank another.
The constitution authorizes the President to appoint persons to fill all offices established by law, but says not a word about appointing officers to collect the tax you levy specifically.
Georgia has undertaken, it is true, to levy a tax on the branch within her jurisdiction, but this law, now under a course of litigation, is considered as invalid.
I answer, to levy a tax is one thing, to create an officer for its collection another.
The Constitution of the United States gives the power tolevy and collect taxes.
But the establishment of a bank is neither levying taxes nor borrowing money; nor is the law incorporating the bank a law tolevy taxes, or a law to borrow money.
The fact cannot be disguised, that the operation of this bill will be to levy a tax on the people of Georgia, the Mississippi and Louisiana Territories alone; and if it passes, it will be owing to that circumstance.
In return, I insist that no State banks did exist when the constitution was first formed, therefore the power to create a National Bank is necessarily given in the power to levy and collect taxes.
I levy a tax and create a bank through whose instrumentality I mean to collect it; from the same authority by which I appoint a collector, I have a right to create a bank through whose instrumentality I mean to receive and transmit it.
The constitution gives to Congress the power to levy taxes, and also the power to borrow money.
The levy for the auxiliary troops, which had taken place more especially among the Pannonians to a considerable extent, had diffused more widely a knowledge of Roman warfare, along with the Roman language and even Roman culture.
Civilis, at the head of a small number of regular troops, but of the collective levy of the Batavi, Cannenefates, and Frisians, advanced from his home to the attack.
Here was developed a dense and prosperous population; we have already mentioned the largeness of the levy in Thrace, and few territories stand on an equality with Thrace at this epoch in the activity of the urban mints.
Noricum adjoined, and was as it were a part of, Italy; in thelevy for the legions and for the guard, so long as the Italians were here at all preferred, this preference was extended to no other province so fully as to this.
If a legate of Belgica had at that time to call out the general levy against the Chauci, this was presumably a piratical expedition, such as often visited the north coast at this time, just as earlier and later.
In the crises of the third century the general levy of Elateia (p.
Accordant with this is the levy of the Usipes, which falls on this same year, and their desperate attempt at flight (Tacitus, Agr.
The first campaign led over the Weser into the interior; in the second at the Elbe itself the Roman legions confronted the Germanic general levy on the other bank.
The scanty population tolerated within the Limes were, as a matter of course, subjects of the empire, as is confirmed by the Roman levy taking place among the Sugambri.
In the levy the Spanish provinces played a prominent part.
Much was lacking to the full carrying out of the provincial organisation; a formal assessment of taxation, a regulated levy for the Roman army, were not yet thought of.
The measure was carried out, not without bloodshed, but the disbanded levy were not replaced by any adequate number of regular troops.
Next year King Chosroes put into the field the last levy of Persia, under a general named Rhazates, whom he bid to go out and "conquer or die.
Constantine's own troops were about four thousand strong, but he hoped to recruit them by a general levy of the male population of the city.
His grandson had neither a trustworthy body of German auxiliaries nor a sufficiently large native levy of born subjects of the empire to protect his borders.
Hereford and Norfolk immediately departed: they were followed by thirty bannerets, and fifteen hundred knights; and the royal officers, intimidated by their menaces, ceased to levy the purveyance.
He should levy no taxes, if possible, but should live parsimoniously off his own estate.
It is singular that after Bodin had removed all effective checks on the tyrant in this world, he should lay it down as a principle that no king should levy {602} taxes without his subjects' consent.
Skeffington was to hold a Parliament, but was to get all the money he could by way of subsidy before it met, and to pay the gross levy into the Vice-Treasurer's hands.
The King of the Great Tribe received hostages from the sub-reguli of his territory for their Ceilsine or fealty, and he might call upon them to support him with a levy of their tribes.
O'Connor admitted the hiring, but explained that the gallowglasses were not bound to levy war against the King, and that Ormonde knew nothing at all about the matter.
Even the Countess Dowager of Kildare, who was the daughter of an English knight, complained that her stepson allowed O'Neill to levy tribute on her lands, and that her property and that of her dependents was laid waste.
There is a time for all things--and young ladies are deservedly unpopular when, even in the cause of charity, they seize every opportunity to levy contributions on the purses of gentlemen.
On the 30th of May, King Stanislaus ordered a general levy of the population.
At length it was established, that no new law should be enacted, nor any levy of troops be made, without the consent of the general diet.
In Parliament it was proposed to levy a tax on the play-houses, which had become undisguised nests of prostitution.
In many provinces, usage, not fortified by the text of any custom, allowed the seigneur to levy toll upon prostitutes exercising their calling within the limits of his jurisdiction.
He was also entitled to levy and retain the amount of all fines imposed by the police on prostitutes, and to charge women ten francs each time they went to a fete outside the city, and five francs if the fete were within the limits.
As he had resolved to rule without the interference of parliaments, he sent out commissioners to every part of the country to levy the sixth part of the goods of the laity and a fourth of those of the clergy.
Orders were accordingly issued to all magistrates to put the penal laws in force, and a commission was appointed to levy the fines on the recusants.
The questions submitted to the judges were whether, when the good and safety of the realm demanded it, the king could not levy this ship-money, and whether he was not the proper and sole judge of the danger and the necessity.
The Court of Star Chamber even, hitherto above all law, was called in question by him, and its power to levy fines in many cases denied.
