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The court reasoned that "the words imports, exports, and imposts are used with exclusive reference to foreign trade" [1]: 134 in Article VI, §3 and Article IX, §1 of the Articles of Confederation and found that the records of the Constitutional Convention used the words "duty," "impost," and "import" in reference to foreign trade.
The Tariff of 1833 (also known as the Compromise Tariff of 1833, ch. 55, 4 Stat. 629), enacted on March 2, 1833, was proposed by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun as a resolution to the Nullification Crisis.
This fall, it enacted a sweeping judicial overhaul, which includes a constitutional amendment to overhaul its judiciary — most notably requiring popular elections for judges at all levels of the ...
The Supreme Court had previously rejected the argument that income taxes constituted direct taxes in Springer v. United States (1881). [52] Some legal scholars continue to question whether the Supreme Court ruled correctly in Pollock, [53] but others contend that the original meaning of direct taxes did indeed include income taxes. [54]
China and some other countries retaliated by imposing tariffs on U.S. goods. The Supreme Court in March turned away a challenge to the 2018 tariffs by a group of U.S.-based steel importers. The ...
However, courts at the state and federal level, including the U.S. Supreme Court, repeatedly have rejected the theory of nullification by states. [1] [2] The controversial and highly protective Tariff of 1828 was enacted into law during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. The tariff was strongly opposed in the South, since it was perceived to ...
President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday he plans to impose a 25% tariff on all products coming into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada as one of his first acts back in the White House.. On the ...
Courts and commentators have tended to discuss each of these three areas of commerce as a separate power granted to Congress. [1] It is common to see the individual components of the Commerce Clause referred to under specific terms: the Foreign Commerce Clause, the Interstate Commerce Clause, [2] and the Indian Commerce Clause.