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.
—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.
congress have a power to regulate commerce;
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.
And if the grant to Congress of a “power to regulate commerce,” can be stretched beyond the innocent meaning of the words—beyond the power of regulating and authorizing a commerce that is consistent with natural justice—and be made to cover everything, intrinsically criminal, that can be perpetrated under the name of commerce—then Congress have the authority of the constitution for granting to ind …
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.
Yet it gives Congress no constitutional authority to legalize any commerce inconsistent with natural justice between man and man;