| Show THE LIMITED POWERS OF CONGRESS ix IN RELATION to the original pac package kagel bill there has been a great deal of discussion involving the powers of congress and the rights of states we notice that the utterances of george tichnor curtis on the subject are looked upon as having great weight and that he Js is regarded by respectable journals as an eminent constitutional authority he says on this important matter to hold that congress can confer on the states a power that they do not now possess would be to hold that the creature can act as if it were the creator congress can no more confer on the states power to do something which they cannot now do than it can by legislation determine what the res reserved e arved powers of the states are by no legislation whatever can congress enlarge or diminish the reserved powers of the states slates this is sound doctrine whatever ground may be taken by the advocates of r centralization and what is called a strong government go vern ment ll 11 any measure that seeks to encroach upon the powers of the states and of the people which are reserved to them by the national constitution is revolutionary and dangerous to the popular welfare no state or confederation of states State ought sought to be e per bitted to defy or override the legitimate authority vested in the united states but at the same time the federal power should be confined to its constitutional limits and checked i when n it seeks to entrench u upon pon the domain of statland state and personal liberty |
