The 1984 Anniversary of the Constitution: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Doctrine of Federalism Within the Constitution, September 17, 1984

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Էջ 5 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Էջ 1 - Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all...
Էջ 13 - Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Էջ 6 - I have never been more struck by the good sense and the practical judgment of the Americans, than in the manner in which they elude the numberless difficulties resulting from their federal Constitution.
Էջ 1 - ... of the other States in the Union, to meet in convention at Philadelphia, at the time, and for the purposes aforesaid. In testimony whereof, I have caused the public seal of the Commonwealth aforesaid to be hereunto affixed. Given at the council [L. s.] chamber, in Boston, the ninth day of April, AD 1787, and in the eleventh year of the independence of the United States of America.
Էջ 7 - The circumstance which makes it easy to maintain a Federal government in America is not only that the states have similar interests, a common origin, and a common language, but that they have also arrived at the same stage of civilization, which almost always renders a union feasible. I do not know of any European nation, however small, that does not present less uniformity in its different provinces than the American people, which occupy a territory as extensive as one half...
Էջ 1 - Deputies to the federal-Convention appeared — but, a majority of the States not being represented, the Members present adjourned from day to day until friday the 25th of the said month, when, in virtue of the said appointments appeared from the States of Massachusetts The honorable Rufus King Esquire.
Էջ 15 - In a single stroke, we will be accomplishing a realignment that will end cumbersome administration and spiraling costs at the Federal level while we insure these programs will be more responsive to both the people they are meant to help and the people who pay for them.
Էջ 18 - ... public schools. Thus the national government was a prime force in making possible what is now taken to be the most local function of all, primary and secondary education. More important, the nation, before it was fully organized, established by this action a first principle of American federalism: the national government would use its superior resources to initiate and support national programs, principally administered by the states and localities.
Էջ 6 - Federal-State relations is the cardinal question of our Federal system of government. It is not a question that can be resolved once for all time. Emphasis shifts from generation to generation as the American people fashion their Government to meet the needs of changing times and changing conditions. Prior to 1900, the question was largely a legal problem. Since that time, it has become increasingly an economic problem. Our Government today is very different in structure and in operation from that...

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