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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated.1914 Excerpt: ... VI JUSTIFICATION OF THE POWERS
CONFERRED BY THE NEW CONSTITUTION UPON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (a)
MILITARY POWERS General View Of The Powers Proposed To Be Vested In
The Union The Constitution proposed by the Convention may be
considered under two general points of view. The first relates to
the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the government,
including the restraints imposed on the states. The second, to the
particular structure of the government, and the distribution of
this power among its several branches. Under the first view of the
subject, two important questions arise: i. Whether any part of the
powers transferred to the general government be unnecessary or
improper? 2. Whether the entire mass of them be dangerous to the
portion of jurisdiction left in the several states? Is the
aggregate power of the general government greater than ought to
have been vested in it? This is the first question. It cannot have
escaped those who have attended with candor to the arguments
employed against the extensive powers of the government, that the
authors of them have very little considered how far these powers
were necessary means of attaining a necessary end. They have chosen
rather to dwell on the inconveniences which must be unavoidably
blended with all political advantages, and on the possible abuses
which must be incident to every power or trust, of which a
beneficial use can be made. This method of handling the subject
cannot impose on the good sense of the people of America. It may
display the subtlety of the writer, it may open a boundless field
for rhetoric and declamation, it may inflame the passions of the
unthinking, and may confirm the prejudices of the misthinking; but
cool and candid people will at once reflect that the purest of
human ble...
An Address At The Meeting Of The Western College Association, March
28, 1942.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
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