Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal
Abstract
The Framers of the Constitution knew, and we should not forget today, that there is no more effective practical guaranty against arbitrary and unreasonable government than to require that the principles of law which officials would impose upon a minority must be imposed generally. Conversely, nothing opens the door to arbitrary action so effectively as to allow those officials to pick and choose only a few to whom they will apply legislation and thus escape political retribution that might be visited upon them if larger numbers were affected. Courts can take no better measure to assure that laws will be just than to require that laws be equal in operation.
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Fourteenth Amendment | Law | Taxation-State and Local | Taxation-Transnational | Torts
Recommended Citation
Kirk Berger,
Foul Play: Tennessee's Unequal Application of Its Jock Tax Against Professional Athletes,
13
Cardozo Pub. L. Pol’y & Ethics J.
333
(2014).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cplpej/vol13/iss1/9
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Criminal Law Commons, Criminal Procedure Commons, Fourteenth Amendment Commons, Taxation-State and Local Commons, Taxation-Transnational Commons, Torts Commons