“To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” PeopleMayStatesGovernmentWould BeUnitedUnited StatesObjectsConstitutionPoliceDefeatCongressAccomplishOperationsAmendmentsReservedDeclaringPolice Power Author:Melville Fuller
“The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.” MenWellsMayIdeasStatesLawPresidentConstitutionRelationPropertyTrialsLoyalSovereignEmancipationCondemnationProclamationDisloyalEmancipation Proclamation Author:Melville Fuller
“The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.” WellsMayTwoLawNaturalViewsClearDoubtWeightConstitutionAidsPracticalsInterpretationConstructionUnnecessaryEntitledEmployedResortsAmbiguityFramersCollateral Author:Melville Fuller
