“The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me.” IfsMayDoeStatesUseSeemsMightCompanyStrangeTaxesAuthorityTestsDoctrineOfficialsTaxationHostage Author:Robert H. Jackson
“We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.” GovernmentOpportunityOpinionRightsAuthorityBillsDenyControlledConsentPublic OpinionBill Of RightsCoerceConsent Of The Governed Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.” IndividualLibertyVictoryAuthorityGainsDefeatRescueJudicialConvictsIndividual Freedom Author:Robert H. Jackson
“We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.” LawJusticeHonorAuthorityConstitutionFinalsSkepticismInfallible Author:Robert H. Jackson
