...no state shall deny to any person within tie jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was cot intended to prevent a state from adjusting its system...taxes upon different trades and professions, and may тагу the rates of excise upon various products; it may tax real estate and personal property in...

...Sup. Ct. Rep. 533, in which it was said not to have been intended to prevent a state from changing its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways. It may, if it chooses, exempt certain classe* of property altogether; may impose different speeHk taxes upon different trades or profession*...

...339, 35 L. ed. 1035, it was held that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution did not prevent the state from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways, nor the classification of property for taxation. That the Missouri statute, imposing a tax upon the...

...the equal protection of the laws, does not prevent a state, in the exercise of its sovereign right, from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways, nor compel the states to adopt an invariable rule of uniform taxation. The amendment intends only that...

...stated: "The provision in the Fourteenth Amendment, that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was...libraries and the property of charitable institutions." Indeed, the Court seems always to have viewed attacks upon the constitutionality of the exemptions...

...stated: "The provision in the Fourteenth Amendment, that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was...libraries and the property of charitable institutions." Indeed, the Court seems always to have viewed attacks upon the constitutionality of the exemptions...

...Walz in Bell's Gap Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania , 134 US 232 (1890): [The equal protection clause] was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting...libraries and the property of charitable institutions We think we are safe in saying that the Fourteenth Amendment was not intended to compel the state to...

...Fourteenth Amendment, that no state shall deny to any person the equal protection of the laws, does not prevent a state from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways, nor compel the states to adopt an iron rule of equal taxation. "The Fourteenth Amendment intended only...

...not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause; that provision, the panel declared, "was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting...system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways," including classifying different property differently and allowing reasonable exemptions. Second, the...

...237) : "The provisions in the Fourteenth Amendment, that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was...system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways" (NY Law Journal, April 9, 1923). HAS THE LAW STIMULATED BUILDING? In our issue of December, 1921, a...