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Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri. 1828 89 (1828)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0013 and id is 1 raw text is: 09 Representative In Congress; and they are hereby re, qucsted to make use of their best endeavors, to procure an Amendment to the constitution of the United States, Ohich will embrace principles contained in the forego. ing resolutions. And that the Executive of this State be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing reso- Iutions, to the Executive of each State,with a request that they lay them before their respective Legislaturesa Approved, January 23,1820. RESOLUTION. The joint committee, to whom were referred a report and a resolution of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the State of Georgia, approved Decem- ber the twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and twen- ty seven; declaring that the Congress of the United States have no Constitutional power, to appropriate monies to aid the American Colonization Society- Report: That in the doctrines, sentiments and opinions ex- prcssed and held by that report, they for the most part, concur; and that the principles avowed by the reolution in question, meet their decided approbation. Your committee insist, that the Government of the U- nited States, is a Government of limited powers; that no powers can he rightfully and constitutionally exer- cised by that Government, unless it be those which are expressly granted, or those plainly implied by such ex- press grants of power. And they further contend, that Congress has no power to appropriate money for any object, unles, it be to carry into cffect some one of the powers so expressly or impliedly granted. This power is hot expressly granted, and this committee can tind no clause in the constitution of the United States, from which such a power can be implied. They canq not conceive, that it is within the meaning,spirit or rea. son of any provision of that instrument. If the exer- ciscof the power in question,be claimed on the ground, that Congress can appropriate the public funds for any purpose whatever, as is claimed by some politicians,then thts committee enter their solemn protest aggainst such an exercise of power, and unhesitatingly pronounce it to be a political heresy, de-erving the severest repro* )ation. If this latidudinouts doctrine be true, then, M

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