Though the motion was lost, it was on the ground of its alleged inexpediency alone, and not because Congress lacked the constitutional power.
Is a constitutional power to be exercised by those who hold it, only by popular sufferance?
The Federal Government, which makes the donation, has confessedly no constitutional power to follow it into the States and enforce the application of the fund to the intended objects.
Waiving for the present the question of constitutional power, what effect will this bill have on the relations established between the Federal and State Governments?
Having practiced the acquisition of territory for nearly sixty years, the question of constitutional power to do so is no longer an open one with us.
I regard this as, at least, a fair appeal to me on the expediency of exercising a constitutional power which I think exists.
Mere precedence is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power, except where the acquiescence of the people and the States can be considered as well settled.
The leading principle, then asserted, was, that Congress possesses no constitutional power to appropriate any part of the moneys of the United States for objects of a local character within the States.
In this there was a great inaccuracy, according to all our present ideas of constitutional power.
The resolve also contained a provision, which appears to have been designed to meet the want of constitutional power, under the Articles of Confederation, relative to the admission of new States.
But his great plans were arrested, partly in consequence of the doubts entertained on the point of constitutional power, and partly by reason of the great falling off of the attendance of members in Congress.
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power, except where the acquiescence of the people and the States can be considered as well settled.
He sustains the decision which declares that the popular will of the Territory has no constitutional power to exclude slavery during their territorial existence.
Yet we must face the fact that able and conscientious men believe the United States has no constitutional power to hold territory that is not to be erected into States in the Union, or to govern people that are not to be made citizens.
But whatever may be thought of the weight of the argument, either as to constitutional power or as to policy, there is little doubt as to the result.
Leake, of Virginia: No constitutional power to abolish slavery or slave-trade in the States, Territories, or District of Columbia.
He says he has noconstitutional power to coerce South Carolina, while at the same time he denies to her the right of secession.
He sustains the decision which declares that the popular will of the Territories has no constitutional power to exclude slavery during their territorial existence.
He, and those with whom he most concurred, had always contended that Congress had no constitutional power to make the interdiction.
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