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1682. CONSTITUTION (The Federal), Infractions of.—

If on [one] infraction [of
the Constitution] we build a second, on that
second a third, &c., any one of the powers
in the Constitution may be made to comprehend
every power of government.—
To Albert Gallatin. Washington ed. iv, 450. Ford ed., viii, 175.
(1802)