 It is contended on the one side that as the National Government is a government of limited powers it has no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants according to a strict construction of their powers...  The Life of James Knox Polk - Page 349by John Stilwell Jenkins - 1850 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1829 - 998 pages
...to say, that, in the early stages of the Government, he had inclined to the construction that it had no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants of power, according to a strict construction of them; but that, on further reflection and observation,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1829 - 592 pages
...to say, that, in the early stages of the Government, he had inclined to the construction that it had no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants of power, according to a strict construction of them; but that, on further reflection and observation,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson - United States - 1835 - 292 pages
...to say, that in the early stages of the government, he had inclined to the construction that it had no right to expend money, except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants of power accord' ing to a strict construction of them; but that, on further reflection and observation,... | |
 | United States - 1835 - 346 pages
...then, the right to raise and appropriate the public money, be not restricted to the expenditures under the other specific grants, according to a strict construction of their powers, respectively, is there no limitation to it? The answer is affirmative: That, the limitation is in the... | |
 | United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson) - Presidents - 1837 - 460 pages
...to say, that, in the early stages of the Government, he had inclined to the construction that it had no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants of power, according to a strict construction of them ; but that, on further reflection and observation,... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 pages
...to say, that in the early stages of the government, he had inclined to the construction that it had no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants of power, according to a strict construction of them ; but that, on further reflection and observation,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...occasion to say that in the early stages of the government he had inclined to the construction that it had no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants of power, according to a strict construction of them ; but that on farther reflection and observation... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...to say, that in the early stages of the government, he had inclined to the construction that it had no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants of power, according to a strict construction of them; but that, on further reflection and observation,... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 582 pages
...to say, that in the early stages of the government, he had inclined to the construction that it had no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants of power, according to a strict construction of them ; but that, on further reflection and observation,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...extent that power may be carried will be the next object of inquiry. It is contended, on the one side, that, as the national government is a government of...limited powers, it has no right to expend money, except iu ihe performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants, according tu a strict construction... | |
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