The Supreme Court
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The federal judicial tribunal whose opinion (upholding broad implied federal powers, discussed as the case being answered) is quoted and repeatedly contested throughout the passage.
Sometimes the court reject a restriction imposed upon particular words by the general tenour of the constitution, and at others endeavour to destroy the most liberal rights, though according with the general tenour.
To sustain the assertions I have been combating, the court says, “There is no phrase in the constitution which excludes incidental or implied powers.
” The assertion “that the same paramount power” (by which I understand the constitution) “which restrained the states from taxing imports and exports, may restrain a state from such other exercise of their taxing power as is in its nature incompatible with and repugnant to the constitutional laws of the union,” by blending a sequitur and a non sequitur together and confounding our ideas, endeavour …