Levying

We use the word _fine_ in three senses: first, as a punishment and penalty; secondly, as a formal means of cutting off by one form the ties of another form, which we call levying a fine; and, thirdly, we use the word to signify a sum of money payable upon renewal of a lease or copyhold. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I agree with you that the focus should have always been on the taxing authorities and the millage process, and that we should be more accustomed to accepting the fairness of an assessment system that is depoliticized and methodologically transparent, and more intent on holding our taxing bodies to account for their actions in levying, collecting, and spending tax revenues. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This prompted company employees to conclude that rice agriculture had been established and that they could therefore begin levying taxes on it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Yes, that would sort of be illegal - US Constitution, Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Constitution has a very narrow definition of treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Recall that the treason clause says that "treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." ❋ Unknown (2003)

(Article III of the Constitution says that "treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.") ❋ Unknown (2003)

What he and they called levying war was, in truth, no better than instigating murder. ❋ Unknown (1852)

They must do justice between the government and the merchant, and not oppress the people in levying the taxes, nor any way make them heavier or more burdensome than the law had made them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

This is sometimes called levying distress or distraining upon goods. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The wealth which he extorted 72 from the oppressed provinces of Gaul, Spain, and Britain, was employed in levying and maintaining a formidable army of Barbarians, collected, for the most part, from the fiercest nations of Germany. ❋ Unknown (1206)

There's been some discussion of a Tobin tax, the idea of levying a tax on financial transactions such as currency, stock, and derivative trades. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now, gentlemen, if this equality be true in the administration of justice, if it be true in the levy of taxation for the maintenance of the State in time of peace, that is, the levying of taxation, the collection of dollars and cents to keep up the State-should:. it not be even more true when the levy is in blood, when the toll collected is in disability, bereavement and death. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Townshend was a repealer, yet all England did not hold a man who was more wedded than was Townshend to the idea of levying internal taxes in the colonies by act of Parliament. ❋ Unknown (1888)

If they had intended to do so, the very style, "United States," would have been a palpable misnomer, nor would treason have been defined as levying war against _them_. ❋ Jefferson Davis (1848)