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![]() ![]() On the contrary we know they will always when they can rather increase it.” “Those who have power in their hands will not give it up while they can retain it. Instead, as George Mason warned, they’d always seek to expand that power even further: That established what John Dickinson in 1767 called the “detestable precedent.” Once the government gets a foot in the door with a new power, people should never expect them to voluntarily give it back. George Washington went with Hamilton and signed the bank bill into law. Its meaning must, according to the natural and obvious force of the terms and the context, be limited to means necessary to the end and incident to the nature of the specified powers.ĭespite the vehement opposition from fellow Virginians like Jefferson, Madison and Edmund Randolph, Pres. “The Constitution allows only the means which are “necessary,” not those which are merely “convenient” for effecting the enumerated powers.” Thomas Jefferson, of course, opposed this view: The natural partner to that was that he had to redefine the word necessary into something else, like “convenient” or “useful.” In just a few short years after ratification, the word necessary started getting a new definition.Īlexander Hamilton, recognizing the opposition to his plans for a national bank were strong, had to suddenly do one of the biggest flip-flops in history and start finding “implied powers” in the document. ![]() They always mean something else – whatever supporters of the monster state can use to keep expanding centralized power. ![]() When the Constitution was ratified, the word necessary meant, well, necessary.īut in the dystopian “future” we live under today, words don’t mean what they actually mean. ![]()
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