The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.

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While McKenna was generally quite favorable to federal power he joined the Court's substantive due process jurisprudence and voted with the majority in 1905's Lochner v. After being admitted to the California bar in 1865 he became District Attorney for Solano County and then served in the California State Assembly for two years (1875–1877). S.

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