Chapter ElevenFunding with Taxes and Other Revenues

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every Constitution.

—Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, Number 30

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