Congress
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congress · that body · the federal legislature · the general government · the legislature of the union · the national government · legislative bodies · legislative departments · legislature · members of congress
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The federal legislature, whose enumerated powers over commerce and taxation are distinguished from the far broader powers inferred from them.
congress have a power to regulate commerce;
—It is time to bring the policy and the power of a legislature's interfering with the judicial functions to the bar of publick opinion.
Look for a moment at Congress, as a power for creating pecuniary inequalities, or for striking balances between favours to states, combinations and individuals.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The federal legislative body whose granted powers are used as test cases for constitutional interpretation.
Yet it gives Congress no constitutional authority to legalize any commerce inconsistent with natural justice between man and man;
We do not say, for example, that the constitution intended to authorize congress “to coin money,” but that it did authorize them to coin it.
The constitution declares that “Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.