 | Jefferson Powell - 1993 - 320 Seiten
...others."52 Writing a few years later about the federal legislature, Jefferson equated a constitutional "power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States" with a legal commission to engage in tyranny. He refused to place any weight on the legislature's duty... | |
 | Roland Adickes - 2017 - 175 Seiten
...clause were to be construed this broadly, "It would reduce the whole instrument [the Constitution] to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress...power to do whatever would be for the good of the US and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever... | |
 | Herbert E. Sloan - 2001 - 396 Seiten
...then there was no limit to what Congress might do, and the Constitution would henceforth be reduced "to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress...power to do whatever would be for the good of the US and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever... | |
 | H. Jefferson Powell - 2005 - 262 Seiten
...drawn boundaries on federal power are no mere administrative convenience: reducing the Constitution "to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress...whatever would be for the good of the United States" is a simple invitation to oppression and misrule. "[A]s they would be the sole judges of the good or... | |
 | Jefferson Powell - 2005 - 261 Seiten
...would be for the good of the United States" is a simple invitation to oppression and misrule. "[AJs they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be ... a power to do whatever evil they please." In contrast, the purpose of the real Constitution, and... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - 379 Seiten
...which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole...power to do whatever would be for the good of the US and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever... | |
 | Susan Dudley Gold - 2008 - 150 Seiten
...States." If that were the case, he noted, "It would reduce the whole instrument [the Constitution] to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress...it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please." The very purpose of the Constitution, he argued, was "to lace [Congress] up straitly," so... | |
 | Jeremy D. Bailey - 2007 - 275 Seiten
...understood this way, the Constitution's careful distribution of power would amount to allowing Congress to do "whatever would be for the good of the United States," a construction which Jefferson believed to be as dangerous as it was unworkable: "It is an established... | |
 | Charles Ellewyin George - 1910 - 564 Seiten
...which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerating of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole...would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would also be a power to do whatever evil they pleased. • * • Hamilton, who can not be charged with placing... | |
 | Jefferson Powell - 2005 - 261 Seiten
...on federal power are no mere administrative convenience: reducing the Constitution "to a sin27 gle phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power...whatever would be for the good of the United States" is a simple invitation to oppression and misrule. "[A]s they would be the sole judges of the good or... | |
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... but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase, not as describing the purpose of the first but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please, which might be for the good of the Union, would render all... 
