Owen Roberts (1875-1955) was an American lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court justice. He was nominated to the court in 1930 by President Herbert Hoover (R) and served until his retirement in 1945.
A tax…signifies an exaction for the support of the Government. The word has never been thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted…are reserved to the states, or to the people.
The question is not what power the federal government ought to have, but what powers in fact have been given by the people.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
