 | 1827 - 552 стор.
...advocate for refined arguments on the constitution. The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought...point ? The first power delegated to Congress, is comprized in these words : ' to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises ; to pay the debts... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1838 - 734 стор.
...advocate for refined arguments on the constitution. The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought to be construed with plain good sense." This is all very just, I think, sir ; and he said much more. He quoted many instances of laws, passed,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1843 - 568 стор.
...advocate for refined arguments on the constitution. The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought to be construed with plain good sense." This is all very just, I think, sir ; and he said much more. He quoted many instances of laws, passed,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1844 - 440 стор.
...8th section of article of the constitution reads as follows: •— "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States." In former days, a portion... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 640 стор.
...advocate for refined arguments on the Constitution. The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought to be construed with plain good-sense." This is all very just, I think, Sir; and he said much more in the same strain. He quoted... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1853 - 678 стор.
...advocate for refined arguments on the constitution. The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought...in these words: " To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 578 стор.
...advocate for refined arguments on the Constitution. The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought to be construed with plain good-sense." This is all very just, I think, Sir ; and he said much more in the same strain. He quoted... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 730 стор.
...advocate for refined arguments on the Constitution. The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought...in these words: "To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises: to pay the debts, and provide tor the common defence and general welfare of the... | |
 | 1854 - 408 стор.
...the eighth section ot the first article of the Constitution. It is, "the Congress shall have power to lay, and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts and to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States." In this I suggest no new... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 608 стор.
...proceedings) to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate to Congress a power " to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States," and "to make all laws which... | |
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The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought to be construed with plain, good sense; and what can be more express than the Constitution on this very point? 
