Article I, Section 9, Clause 5
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
The Federalist and Federalist essays
- quoted bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article I, ¶ 96
No tax or duty ſhall be laid on articles exported from any State. No preference ſhall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue, to the ports of one State, over thoſe of another Nor ſhall veſſels bound to, or from, one…
The paragraph prints Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 of the Constitution as signed; the quoted words are the same as the clause's (apart from capitals and the long s), though the pamphlet's punctuation differs in places.
- cited bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article I, ¶ 97
ALL writers upon finance hold taxes upon exports to be impolitic.
The paragraph discusses taxes upon exports and says it would be unjust for some states' produce to be taxed for the benefit of others, which concerns the ban on export taxes in Article I, Section 9, Clause 5.
- cited bySuggestedRemarks on the New Plan, ¶ 13
No duties will be laid on exports ; hence the planter will receive the true value for his produce, wherever it may be shipped.
Describing the proposed form of government, the paragraph names the rule that no duties will be laid on exports, which only Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 fits.
- quoted byReviewedFederalist No. 32, ¶ 2
…its inspection laws.” Hence would result an exclusive power in the Union to lay duties on imports and exports, with the particular exception mentioned; but this power is abridged by another clause, which declares that no tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State; in consequence of which qualification, it now only extends to the DUTIES ON IMPORTS.
Reproduces the whole wording of this clause, introduced as "another clause, which declares that no tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State."
Anti-Federalist essays
- cited bySuggestedFederal Farmer 4, ¶ 9
It is here wisely stipulated, that the federal legislature shall never pass a bill of attainder, or expost facto law ; that no tax shall be laid on articles exported, &c.
Says it is stipulated "that no tax shall be laid on articles exported," nearly the words of this clause.
Debates in Congress
- cited bySuggestedHouse, July 12, 1909, ¶ 655
…to tax the people for the support of the Government is complete and plenary, the only restraint found in it relating to the taxing power of Congress is that " Congress is for bidden to impose an e:xport tax. upon any article exported from any State." - l\fr .
The paragraph names as a restraint on the taxing power that Congress is forbidden "to impose an export tax upon any article exported from any State", which is Article I, Section 9, Clause 5.
On Article I, Section 9 as a whole
- cited bySuggestedHouse, August 15, 1789, ¶ 3
- cited bySuggestedHouse, June 8, 1789, ¶ 29
- cited bySuggestedFederal Farmer 4, ¶ 9
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