The Republican Party : its history, principles, and policies . de the purchase (1803), but apolo-gized for the act by characterizing it as extra-constitutional. These inconsistencies of the prominent strict constructionistsdid much to neutralize the influence of their theory, and causethat of the implied powers to become the policy of the Na-tion. The power of Congress to charter National banks, or tomake appropriations for internal improvements, has long sincebeen unquestioned ; while Congress is untrammeled in obtain-ing territories, and in due time, as the case may be, admittingthem as Stat


The Republican Party : its history, principles, and policies . de the purchase (1803), but apolo-gized for the act by characterizing it as extra-constitutional. These inconsistencies of the prominent strict constructionistsdid much to neutralize the influence of their theory, and causethat of the implied powers to become the policy of the Na-tion. The power of Congress to charter National banks, or tomake appropriations for internal improvements, has long sincebeen unquestioned ; while Congress is untrammeled in obtain-ing territories, and in due time, as the case may be, admittingthem as States. The Federal party was in power during the administrationof Washington, and that of John Adams. During this time itspolicy was subjected to the continual and unscrupulous assaultsof the opposition, whose leaders resisted nearly every measureproposed in Congress by the Federalists. The clubs being modeled after those of Paris, partook ofthe traits of the latter, and the turbulent and violent men ofthe times found in them congenial elements. Says Prof. Sum-.


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