...omission would not have overthrown the whole theory of a government of definite powers and destroyed the meaning and effect of the particular enumeration...which necessarily explains and limits the general phrase. When this Article went to the Committee on Style it provided: "The legislative power shall...

...been copied from the very limited grant of powers in the former Articles of Confederation, were the less liable to be misconstrued) so as to destroy the...one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable consequence of which would be to transform the present republican system of the United States into...

...Federal Government with attempting to enlarge its powers by forced constructions of the Constitution "so as to consolidate the States, by degrees, into...United States into an absolute, or, at best, a mixed monarchy"!3 State legislatures then considered themselves guardians of state-rights, even of state-sovereignty,...

...been copied from the very limited grant of powers in the former Articles of Confederation, were the less liable to be misconstrued) so as to destroy the...one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable consequence of which would be to transform the present republican system of the United States into...

...has indicated a design " to consolidate the states, by degrees, into one Sovereignty, the inn'itable result of which •would be, to transform the present...into an ABSOLUTE, or, at best, a MIXED MONARCHY." As a proof that such is the design of the Federal Government, they cite (in stave 5th 6th, and 7th)...

...enlarge its powers by forced constructions" of the Constitution would inevitably result in transforming "the present republican system of the United States into an absolute or, at best, a mixed monarchy."144 In 1799 the " tyrannical and degrading effects"145 of the Sedition Act were harped upon,...

...been copied from the very limited grant of powers in the former articles of confederation were the less liable to be misconstrued) so as to destroy the...one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable consequence of which would be, to transform the present republican system of the United States, into...

...government's attempts to enlarge its powers by forced constructions of the constitutional charter ... so as to destroy the meaning and effect of the particular...one sovereignty, the obvious tendency and inevitable consequence of which would be to transform the present republican system of the United States into...

...spirit has in sundry instances been manifested by the Federal Government to enlarge its powers . . . the obvious tendency and inevitable result of which...States into an absolute, or, at best, a mixed monarchy. Fifth. That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infraction...

...constitutional charter which defines them." This expansionist tendency was working, the fourth article asserted, "so as to destroy the meaning and effect of the particular...necessarily explains and limits the general phrases [in the Constitution]." 47 Other parts of the Bill of Rights look more like enactments of substantive...