§ 3. Levying taxes and charges. No tax, duty, aid or imposition
whatsoever, except such as may be laid by a law of the United States,
can be taken or levied within this state, without the grant and assent
of the people of this state, by their representatives in senate and
assembly; and no citizen of this state can be by any means compelled to
contribute to any gift, loan, tax, or other like charge, not laid or
imposed by a law of the United States, or by the legislature of this
state.