- Look up
impost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Impost may mean: A type of tax,
especially a tax
levied on
imports A
handicap (usually a lead weight)...
-
serving as the base for the
springer or
lowest voussoir of an arch. The
imposts are left
smooth or profiled, and "then
express a
certain separation between...
- duties,
imposts, and excises, ... but all duties,
imposts, and
excises shall be
uniform throughout the
United States.": 132 If the term "
imposts" was intended...
- Constitution: "Congress
shall have
Power To lay and
collect Taxes, Duties,
Imposts and Excises." But
Congress has
repeatedly shifted its
powers regarding...
- mints. He
stated that it
would be U.S.
policy "to
collect the
duties and
imposts"; "there will be no invasion, no
using of
force against or
among the people...
-
policy through the
enumerated power to "lay and
collect Taxes, Duties,
Imposts and Excises, to pay the
Debts and
provide for the
common Defence and general...
- Congress's
power to
impose "Taxes, Duties,
Imposts and Excises," but
Article I,
Section 8
requires that, "Duties,
Imposts and
Excises shall be
uniform throughout...
- Duties,
Imposts and Excises, to pay the
Debts and
provide for the
common Defence and
general Welfare of the
United States; but all Duties,
Imposts and Excises...
- above,
transferring it from
stone to
stone to the springer's
bottom face (
impost),
which is
horizontal and p****es the
thrust on to the buttresses, piers...
- a
strong advocate of
protective tariffs. The
primary intention of such
imposts was not to
raise revenue, but to
allow American manufacturing to develop...
