 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever...good of the United States ; and, as they would be the so\S judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. It is an... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1857 - 426 pages
...enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever...United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they pleased. It is an established rule... | |
 | Timothy Farrar - Constitutional law - 1867 - 560 pages
...the same opinion. He says, that, considered as a " distinct and independent " power, it would be a "power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they [Congress] would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would also be a power to do whatever evil... | |
 | Henry Clay Dean - Sinking-funds - 1869 - 562 pages
...enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase. That of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever...United States, and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they pleased. It is an established rule... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1881 - 668 pages
...enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase — that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be tor the good of the United States ; and, as they would IK; the sole judges of the good or evil, it... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1882 - 870 pages
...enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase; that of instituting a congress with power to do whatever...United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they pleased. *»*»** Certainly no... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1898 - 884 pages
...enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever...States ; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever «» evil they please. It is an established... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Taxation - 1900 - 658 pages
...the " unlimited " theory to a reductio ad absurd-urn. " A power to lay taxes for the common defence and general welfare of the United States is not in...limitations of the power of taxation do not apply to Ibis controversy, it was replied that the relation of the State courts to their State Constitutions... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Political science - 1900 - 1504 pages
...enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever...United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. It is an established rule... | |
 | Frederick Albert Richardson - Political science - 1903 - 504 pages
...enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a congress with power to do whatever...the United States ; and, as they would be the sole judge of the good or evil, it would also be a power to do whatever evil they pleased. Certainly, no... | |
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It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States... 
