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" The phrase is as comprehensive as any that could have been used; because it was not fit that the constitutional authority of the Union to appropriate its revenues, should have been restricted within narrower limits than the " general welfare;" and because... "
History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the ... - Page 303
by John Church Hamilton - 1879
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Economica: A Statistical Manual for the United States of America ...

Samuel Blodget - 1806 - 258 pages
...nation, would have been left without a provision. The phrase is as comprehensive as any that could have been used ; because it was not fit that the constitutional...within narrower limits than the ' general welfare? ^ " It is therefore of necessity left to the discretion of the national legislature, to pronounce upon...
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Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States...[1790-1828].

United States. Department of the Treasury - 1828 - 586 pages
...nation would have been left without a provision. The phrase is as comprehensive as any that could have been used; because it was not fit that the constitutional...necessity, left to the discretion of the national Icgislature) to pronounce upon the objects which concern the general welfare, and for which, under...
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Banks and Currency

Albert Gallatin - 1830 - 100 pages
...nation, would have been left without a provision. The phrase is as comprehensive as anj' that could have been used; because it was not fit that the constitutional...susceptible neither of specification nor of definition." " The only qualification of the generality of the phrase in question, which seems to be admissible,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 6

1830 - 570 pages
...nation, would have been left without a provision. Tlie phrase is as comprehensive as any that could hare been, used; because it was not fit that the constitutional...susceptible neither of specification nor of definition. than that ' all duties, imposts and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States; that no...
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The Southern Review, Volume 6

1830 - 566 pages
...nation, would have been left without a provision. The phrase is as comprehensive as any that could have been used ; because it was not fit that the constitutional...necessarily embraces a vast variety of particulars, which arc susceptible neither of specification nor of definition. " It is, therefore, of necessity, left...
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Register of Debates in Congress: 21st Congress, 1st session, pt. 1. Dec. 7 ...

United States. Congress - 1830 - 660 pages
...more to the purpose by some. In his report on manufactures, page fifty-fourth, Mr. Hamilton remarks: "It is therefore of necessity left to the discretion...National Legislature to pronounce upon the objects which tublisli has been therefore properly interpreted by t of the Government from its commencement; and,...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...nation, would have been left without a provision. The phrase is as comprehensive, as any, that could have been used ; because it was not fit, that the constitutional...specification, nor of definition. It is, therefore, of necessiiy left to the discretion of the national legislature to pronounce upon the objects, which concern...
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Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States ..., Volume 1

United States. Department of the Treasury - 1837 - 578 pages
..."general welfare," and U cause this necessarily embraces a vast variety of particulars, which :•/• susceptible neither of specification nor of definition....necessity, left to the discretion of the national legislntr.rto pronounce upon the objects which concern the general welfare, and v: which, under that...
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Manual of the constitution of the United States of America

Timothy Farrar - 1867 - 560 pages
...general welfare. . . . The phrase is as comprehensive as any that could have been used; because it WHS not fit that the constitutional authority of the Union,...which are susceptible neither of specification nor definition. ... A power to appropriate money with this latitude ... is granted, too, in express terms."...
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Manual of the Constitution of the United States of America

Timothy Farrar - 1867 - 556 pages
...the common defence and general welfare. . . . The phrase is as comprehensive as any that could have been used ; because it was not fit that the constitutional...general welfare ; and because this necessarily embraces n vast variety of particulars, which are susceptible neither of specification nor definition. ... A...
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