Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power: Temporary National Economic Committee. Final Report of the Executive Secretary to the Temporary National Economic Committee on the Concentration of Economic Power in the United States Pursuant to Public Resolution No. 113 (Seventy-fifth Congress) Authorizing and Directing a Select Committee to Make a Full and Complete Study and Investigation with Respect to the Concentration of Economic Power In, and Financial Control Over, Production and Distribution of Goods and Services ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - 435 páginas |
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Página 151 - lu view of these and other decisions of this court, it must be regarded as settled that no State can, consistently with the Federal Constitution, impose upon the products of other States, brought therein for sale or use, or upon citizens because engaged in the- sale therein, or the transportation thereto, of the products of other States, more onerous public burdens or taxes than it imposes upon the like products of its own territory.
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