...Commonwealth of Massachusetts explicitly declares the only principle on which just taxation can rest : " Each individual of the society has a right to be protected...consequently, to contribute his share to the expense of this protection." The great fundamental principle that prot ection is the only just ground of taxation...

...Commonwealth of Massachusetts explicitly declares the only principle on which just taxation can rest : " Each individual of the society has a right to be protected...consequently, to contribute his share to the expense of this protection." The great fundamental principle that protection is the only just ground of taxation...

...qualifications, has equal right to elect, and be elected into office. XII. Every member of the community has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty and property — he is therefore bound to contribute his share in the cxpencc of such protection, and to yield his...

...the Bill of Rights of toe Constitution, the right is guaranteed to "each individual of the society" "to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life,...liberty, and property, according to standing laws." In the continued enjoyment of these three rights when defined and established by law the individual...

...bound to contribute his share in the expense of community protection : Every member of the community has a right to be protected by it, in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property ; he is therefore bound to contribute his share in the expense of such protection, and to yield his...

...sufficient accuracy in the tenth article of the bill of rights in this constitution :. " Each individual in society has a. right to be protected by it, in the...enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to the standing laws." Here is no right of office enumerated ; no right of governing others, or of bearing...

...Protection and taxation reciprocal; private property for public use. Every member of the community has a right to be protected by it, in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property; he is therefore bound to contribute his share in the expense of such protection, and to yield his personal...

...the FBI/Norfolk Crime Resistance Program, in 1780, the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights stated: "Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by (that society) in the enjoyment of his life, liberty and property. He is obliged consequently, to contribute...

...standing army. The 1780 Massachusetts Bill of Rights reaffirmed the citizens' obligation to serve: "Each individual of the society has a right to be...contribute his share to the expense of the protection; to give his personal service, or an equivalent, when necessary."31 But military analysts questioned...

...Fourteenth Amendment, Senator Wilson of Massachusetts had cited the Massachusetts provision which reads: "Each individual of the society has a right to be...life, liberty and property according to standing laws. "677 In the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 the same was expressed with the words that every citizen of the...