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6831. POWERS, Assumed.—[continued].

If, wherever the Constitution
assumes a single power out of many
which belong to the same subject, we should
consider it as assuming the whole, it would
vest the General Government with a mass
of powers never contemplated. On the contrary,
the assumption of particular powers


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seems an exclusion of all not assumed.—
To Joseph C. Cabell. Washington ed. vi, 310. Ford ed., ix, 452.
(M. 1814)