 The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, in order to pay the debts, and to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States...  Hearings - Page 541by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1928Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...understood in this interpretation. They will then stand thus : " The congress shall have power to lay and " collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, in order " to pay the debts, and to provide for the common " defence and general welfare of the United States ;" h.hat is, for the purpose... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...so the whole to be read together, as if the words stood thus, — " Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises," in order "to pay the public debts, and to provide for the common defence and general welfare;" that is to say, Congress... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 602 pages
...congress." I rend the whole sentence as if it were written thu.i : " The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, in order to pay the debts of the United States already contracted, or for tkc purposes hircin dccJt.red hereafter to he ccmfrncf«},... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...congress." I read the whole sentence as if it were written thus : '* The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, in order to pay the délits of the United States already contracted, or for the purposes herein declared hcrctijtcr to... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 574 pages
...authority, it never will be. I take the received and just construction of that article, as if written to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, in order to pay the debts, and in order to provide for the common defence and general welfare. It is not a substantive general power... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...understood in this interpretation. They will then stand thus : ' The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises in order to pay the debts, and to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States ; ' that is for the purpose... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - 1859 - 644 pages
...reading of the money clause is correct. He reads it thus : " The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, in order to pay the debts, and in order to provide for the common defence and general welfare." Congress does not provide for the... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 638 pages
...power under that clause to have been well and wisely settled. He thinks Congress has the " power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises," in order " to pay the debts"—and in order " to provide for the common defence ami ltENERAL, WELFARE." In all this I quite... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1865 - 384 pages
...so the whole to be read together, as if the words stood thus, — "Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises," in order "to pay the public debts, and to provide for the common defence and general welfare;" that is to say, Congress... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 452 pages
...imP°rt °f lhe whole clause could be thus expressed : " The are. Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, in order to pay the debts, and to provide for the common 11,79, 89. defence and general welfare of the United States." Story's Const.... | |
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