| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises. The exercise of this power is limited to the object of" paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the United States;" which seems to be rather the expression of the motives which induced the grant,... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1828 - 760 pages
...grammatical construction of the sentence, then, is, tint the power of imposing taxes is to be exercised for the purpose of paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare. The power of appropriation, thus limited and modified, may, in my opinion, •T, be exercised so beneficially... | |
| Periodicals - 1825 - 500 pages
...forth in Congress, namely, the absolute necessity of enabling lhem to supply themselves with the means of paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare. Is it not an outrage upon our understanding, upon common sense, to tell us that a whole people who... | |
| United States - 1886 - 684 pages
...Government, is specific and limited; it is in its very terms confined lo the purposes of the Union: to paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the United States. And if ihe language of that particular grant was not so limited, it could receive... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 762 pages
...construction of the sentence, then, is, that the power of imposing taxes is to be exercised for the purpose et paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare. The power of appropriation, thus limited and modified, muy, in my opinion, sir, be exercised so beneficially... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1832 - 502 pages
...power of the government of the United States to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises for the purpose of paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the Union is expressly granted in the Constituiion, and, it is believed, has never been denied by... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1832 - 520 pages
...power of the government of the United States to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises for the purpose of paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the Union is expressly granted in the Constitution, and, it is believed, has never been denied by... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1832 - 992 pages
...power of the government of the United States to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises for the purpose of paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the Union is expressly granted in the Constitution, and, it is believed, has never been denied by... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1832 - 450 pages
...most obviously limited and restricted to the raising of a revenue for the purpose, as before stated, of paying the debts and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the Union. These purposes can be legitimately executed by the Federal Government only by the exercise... | |
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