...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...the exercise of the power " to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises," to the objects of paying the debts, and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the United States. If this be true,- the section contains an express enumeration of all the purposes...

...the exercise of the power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises," to the objects of paying the debts, and providing for the common defence and general welfare of the United States. If this be true, the section contains an express enumeration of all the purposes...

...government of the United States to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises for the purpose of paying the debts and 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 those, who...

...government of the United States to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises for the purpose of paying the debts and 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 those, who...

...whatever, but are used to express the tnds or objects for which particular grants of power were given. Paying the debts, and providing for the common defence and general welfare, are great objects, intimately connected with the particular grants of power which are given for their...