It is, therefore, of necessity left to the discretion of the national Legislature to pronounce upon the objects which concern the general welfare, and for which, under that description, an appropriation of money is requisite and proper. And there seems... Southern Quarterly Review - Page 380edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
| Andrew Stewart - Public works - 1872 - 434 pages
...which are susceptible neither of specification nor of definition. " It is, therefore, of necessity left to the discretion of the National Legislature to pronounce...is requisite and proper. And there seems to be no reason for a doubt, that whatever concerns the'general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufactures... | |
| Andrew Stewart - Public works - 1872 - 446 pages
...which are susceptible neither of specification nor of definition. " It is, therefore, of necessity left to the discretion of the National Legislature to pronounce...is requisite and proper. And there seems to be no reason for a doubt, that whatever concerns the general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufactures... | |
| Albert Gallatin - Currency question - 1879 - 668 pages
...which are susceptible neither of specification nor of definition. " It is, therefore, of necessity left to the discretion of the national Legislature to pronounce...room for a doubt that whatever concerns the general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufactures, and of commerce are within the sphere of the... | |
| James Schouler - United States - 1880 - 560 pages
...susceptible of the application of money. To use his own words: " It is therefore of necessity left to the discretion of the national legislature to pronounce...an appropriation of money is requisite and proper." Though he limited this central discretion to the application of money, and stated some restrictions... | |
| John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1883 - 462 pages
...language) " to the discretion of the national Legislature to pronounce ON THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT upon the objects which concern the general welfare,...is requisite and proper. And there seems to be no doubt, that whatever concerns the general interests of agriculture, of manufactures and of commerce,... | |
| James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 1194 pages
...gives the widest scope to the phrase "general welfare," and declares that "it is of necessity left to the discretion of the national Legislature to pronounce...an appropriation of money is requisite and proper." Mr. Hamilton elaborates his argument on this head with consummate power, and declares that " the only... | |
| John Freeman Baker - Constitutional history - 1887 - 156 pages
...carrying into execution all the powers vested by the Constitution in the government; and it is left to the discretion of the National Legislature to pronounce...upon the objects which concern the general welfare. The propriety of investing such power in a distinct department, and whether it ought to be composed... | |
| John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 748 pages
...manufactures made in the year 1791, that the national legislature may, in the exercise of their discretion, " pronounce upon the objects which concern the general...appropriation of money is requisite and proper," and that " whatever concerns the general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufactures, and of... | |
| Frank William Taussig - Tariff - 1892 - 420 pages
...which are susceptible neither of specification nor of definition. -*£> is therefore of necessity left to the discretion of the national legislature to pronounce...room for a doubt that whatever concerns the general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufactures, and of commerce, are within the sphere of the... | |
| American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1892 - 500 pages
...first suggested by Alexander Hamilton, in his celebrated report of 171)1, that it belongs to Congress " to pronounce upon the objects which concern the general...an appropriation of money is requisite and proper." In other words, while conceding that those words grant no other powers than those enumerated thereafter,... | |
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