...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...excises," than as creating a limitation, restraining Congress in its exercise, to the raising of money for the purpose of paying the debts, and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the United States. Had the Convention designed these words as conveying any substantive grant, they...

...excises," than as creating a limitation, restraining Congress in its exercise, to the raising of money for the purpose of paying the debts, and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the United States. Had the Convention designed these words as conveying any substantive grant, they...

...consideration and submit the following REPORT:— The power of the government of the United States to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises for...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...

...consideration and submit the following , REPORT :— The power of the government of the United States to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises for...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...

...consideration and submit the following REPORT:— The power of the government of the United States to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises for...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...