 | Gaspar Griswold Bacon - 1928 - 232 pages
...because it was not deemed necessary to assert what was then generally recognized. "Why," said Hamilton, "declare that things shall not be done which there...should it be said that the liberty of the press shall be not restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed?" * But, through the... | |
 | Wilfred Ellsworth Binkley - 1928 - 120 pages
...rather than amendments? What light does their history throw on this question? 6. "Why," asked Hamilton, "should it be said that the liberty of the press shall...not be restrained, when no power is given by which restriction can be imposed? Explain part in bold face type. Is a bill of right logical in a popularly... | |
 | William Brooke Graves - 1928 - 1326 pages
...government had no power to set aside any of the guarantees of the Bill of Kights. As Hamilton expressed it: For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do ? For instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained when no power... | |
 | Gaspar Griswold Bacon - 1928 - 232 pages
...is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall be not restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed?" I But, through the insistence of Mason, Jefferson, and others, this declaration of rights was added to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1944 - 1152 pages
...granted ; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim More than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which...shall not be restrained, when no power is given by whicb restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1944 - 1054 pages
...afford a colorable prrteit to claim nrore than were granted. For why declare that things shall not te done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance,...shall not be restrained, when no power is given by wMA restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision wooid confer a regulating... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1927 - 256 pages
...complaint was heard in the fight for ratification, Hamilton in the "Federalist" asked "Why should we declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" But Jefferson, with that marvelous prescience which was his, foresaw the time when even with a Bill... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1958 - 506 pages
...claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done for which there is not power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said...regulating power, but it is evident that it would furnishi to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power. They might urge with... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 pages
...account, would afford a colorable o claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not which there is no power to do? Why for instance, should it be said, that ty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which )ns may be imposed? * * *... | |
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They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? 
