 | Canada - 1863 - 260 pages
...ASPECTS. CONSTITUTIONAL POWEB OF CONGEESS. The Constitution empowers Congress to do all necessary acts to provide for the COMMON DEFENSE, and to promote the GENERAL WELFARE. Mr. Jefferson, in 1801, on assuming the duties of the Presidency, announced as among the leading objects... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Committee on Statistics - Canals - 1863 - 50 pages
...ASPECTS. CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF CONGRESS. The Constitution empowers Congress to do all necessary acts to provide for the COMMON DEFENSE, and to promote the GENERAL WELFARE. Mr. Jefferson, in 1801, on assuming the duties of the Presidency, announced as among the leading objects... | |
 | Canals - 1863 - 46 pages
...ASPECTS. CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF CONGRESS. The Constitution empowers Congress to do all necessary acts to provide for the COMMON DEFENSE, and to promote the GENERAL WELFARE. Mr. Jefferson, in 1801, on assuming the duties of the Presidency, announced as among the leading objects... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1164 pages
...the general government which they established such powers as were deemed to be necessary to enable it to provide for the common defense and to promote the general welfare of the people of the United States, the states themselves reserved complete and sovereign control over... | |
 | United States. General Land Office, Binger Hermann - Louisiana Purchase - 1900 - 134 pages
...consequently the Government possesses the power of acquiring territory either by conquest or treat}'. The Supreme Court again, in another celebrated case,...territory, •which were never consummated by ratification, such as Hawaii in 1854, Santo Domingo in 1870, Hawaii again in 1893, and still later in 1897. Congress... | |
 | Lewis Rhoton, William J. Galbraith - Arkansas - 1900 - 314 pages
...industries," " tariff for revenue only," and " free trade." Taxes may be collected to pay the public debt, to provide for the common defense, and to promote the general welfare. What does this mean? May Congress lawfully appropriate money to purchase Cuba? To build the Nicaragua... | |
 | Pacific States - 1903 - 782 pages
...neighborhood. Nobody complains and nobody has a right to complain. It is the business of this nation to "provide for the common defense," and to " promote the general welfare," according to the language of the Constitution. So we have done on the Coast of the Atlantic ; so we... | |
 | Charles Fletcher Lummis - California - 1903 - 792 pages
...neighborhood. Nobody complains and nobody has a right to complain. It is the business of this nation to "provide for the common defense," and to " promote the general welfare," according to the language of the Constitution. So we have done on the Coast of the Atlantic ; so we... | |
 | National Drainage, Conservation and Flood Control Congress - 1916 - 106 pages
...preamble they tell us what their purpose was. Among other things, it was to insure more perfect union, to provide for the common defense and to promote the general welfare. I do not claim that they included floods as an enemy which must be met by a "common defense," but in... | |
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Constitution declares one of the objects to be to provide for the common defense and to promote the general welfare... 
