United States Congress
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English)
Thus a supremacy of the states, not only over congress, but over the whole constitution, is twice acknowledged;
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The federal legislature of the United States, whose taxing, coining, and appropriating powers are examined as limited rather than sovereign.
I conclude therefore, that neither the state governments nor congress have a sovereign power over property;
Here the question is, whether congress derive from the power of taxation, a sovereign power to expend the money thus raised, according to its own will and pleasure, like an English parliament or a Russian emperor.
To correct an usurpation in theory, and an evil in practice, the constitution of the United States prohibits the state governments from passing “any bill of attainder or expost facto law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts,” and empowers congress “to coin money and fix the standard of weights and measures.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The American legislature, contrasted with the British Parliament as less socialistic despite greater democracy.
The government of England is far less democratic than is the government of the United States, but the legislation of Congress is less socialistic than the legislation of the Imperial Parliament.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The federal legislature, criticized for delegating the qualification and selection of federal jurors to the individual states.
There has, probably, never been a legal jury, nor a legal trial by jury, in a single court of the United States, since the adoption of the constitution.
Congress have as much constitutional right to give over all the functions of the United States government into the hands of the state legislatures, to be exercised within each state in such manner as the legislature of such state shall please to exercise them, as they have to thus give up to these legislatures the selection of juries for the courts of the United States.
In this corrupt and lawless manner, Congress, instead of taking care to preserve the trial by jury, so far as they might, by providing for the appointment of legal juries—incomparably the most important of all our judicial tribunals, and the only ones on which the least reliance can be placed for the preservation of liberty—have given the selection of them over entirely to the control of an indefi …