The 1984 Anniversary of the Constitution: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Doctrine of Federalism Within the Constitution, September 17, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985 - 33 lappuses |
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7. lappuse - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
21. lappuse - If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this: that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.
11. lappuse - Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
21. lappuse - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
29. lappuse - It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people.
8. lappuse - I have never been more struck by the good sense and the practical judgment of the Americans, than in the manner in which they elude the numberless difficulties resulting from their federal Constitution.
4. lappuse - Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all...
3. lappuse - ... of the other States in the Union, to meet in convention at Philadelphia, at the time, and for the purposes aforesaid. In testimony whereof, I have caused the public seal of the Commonwealth aforesaid to be hereunto affixed. Given at the council [L. s.] chamber, in Boston, the ninth day of April, AD 1787, and in the eleventh year of the independence of the United States of America.
9. lappuse - The circumstance which makes it easy to maintain a Federal government in America is not only that the states have similar interests, a common origin, and a common language, but that they have also arrived at the same stage of civilization, which almost always renders a union feasible. I do not know of any European nation, however small, that does not present less uniformity in its different provinces than the American people, which occupy a territory as extensive as one half...
3. lappuse - Deputies to the federal-Convention appeared — but, a majority of the States not being represented, the Members present adjourned from day to day until friday the 25th of the said month, when, in virtue of the said appointments appeared from the States of Massachusetts The honorable Rufus King Esquire.