capitation

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No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2017

Capitation by definition places the interests of doctor and patient in conflict, they argue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taxes which, it is intended, should fall indifferently upon every different Species of Revenue 366 Capitation Taxes 367 Taxes upon consumable Commodities 368 CHAP.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain

Capitation and direct taxes 317Direct taxes 317The Hylton case 317From the Hylton to the Pollock case 318Restriction of the Pollock decision 319Miscellaneous 321Clause 5.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel

No Capitation Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census herein before directed to be taken.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various