Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors

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• holding that a federal statute authorizing the operation of a federal bank preempts state taxation of that bank
• “The Clause . . . does not bar the use of testimonial statements for purposes other than establishing the truth of the matter asserted.”
• “There can be no contract in which the party does not receive some personal, private, individual benefit. To make ... a private contract, there must be a private beneficial interest vested in the party who pays the consideration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).