Taxation, the chief legislative function in the 13th and 14th centuries, 9, 16; provisions in Magna Carta, 16; control of parliament over, 16, 17; early controversies in England, 16-18; and representation, 16-17, 162-163; essentially a legislative function, 17; inheritance tax, 159-160, 167-173; income tax, 159, 173-175; power to tax is the power to destroy, 160; conflict of state and federal, 160; should be equal and apportioned, 161; taxing power liable to abuse, 161; proportional taxation, 161-163; federal rule of apportionment, 173-174; excise tax, 173. _See_ Graduated taxation. Tenement case, _see_ Jacobs case. Throop, Governor, 221. Truth, indispensable even in political discussions, 69; trite truths often the most valuable, 202; eternal, 203. Turgot, Baron de L'Aulne, 264. Unconstitutional laws, American doctrine based upon the statute of 1369, 7, 8, 11; doctrine formerly recognized in England, 7-10; English courts may yet annul, 11; examples, 49, 57, 61, 65, 122, 123, 137, 209; Hamilton's views, 71-72; cannot always be annulled by the courts, 170-171. _See_ Constitutional limitations. United States of America, termed a government of laws and not of men, 124; population, 204; debt to France, 262-266; treaty of alliance with France, 265; policy of neutrality in European wars, 268-270; foreign relations in the hands of the President, 269. United States _vs._ Lee, 101. United States _vs._ O'Keefe, 100. Vassal _vs._ Massachusetts, 90. Washington, George, 35, 186, 187, 189, 197, 263, 268. Willcox _vs._ Consolidated Gas Co., 122. Wilson, Woodrow, 195, 198, 217, 241. Workmen's Compensation laws, federal enactments, 61-64, 67-68; New York statute, 65-69; legislation not prevented by the courts or the Constitution, 68-69, 82; general discussion, 132-138; should be confined to hazardous employments, 134-136; the British act, 135. Young, Ex parte, 119n.