"[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any……" — Joseph Story
"[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant."
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Joseph Story
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47 Quotes by Joseph Story
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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the…
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of…
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states,…
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the…
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The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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