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8348. TAXES, Legislation and.—[continued].

Taxes should be continued
by annuel or biennial reenactments, because
a constant hold, by the nation, of the
strings of the public purse, is a salutary restraint
from which an honest government
ought not to wish, nor a corrupt one to be
permitted to be free.—
To J. W. Eppes. Washington ed. vi, 195. Ford ed., ix, 395.
(P.F.,,
Sep. 1813)