Sunday, December 4, 2011

"2d. We will next enquire into what is implied in the authority to pass all laws which shall be necessary and proper to carry this power into execution. 
It is, perhaps, utterly impossible fully to define this power. The authority granted in the first clause can only be understood in its full extent, by descending to all the particular cases in which a revenue can be raised; the number and variety of these cases are so endless, and as it were infinite, that no man living has, as yet, been able to reckon them up." 
 -Brutus #5

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