The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . national treasury, thequantum to be left to the discretion oi tne national motion was passed by nine states to two. As to the powers of Uongress urged the greatestextension possible. He wouia oppose no grant ox power which less-ened the power of the states ana increased tne power oi the nation-al government. Me urged that Congress be allov/ed to tax exportsas-well as imp-^rts (3). he wanted the whole power of commercialregiilatlon given to uongress without restrictions (4). He favoredthe pov/er of uongress to subdue re
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . national treasury, thequantum to be left to the discretion oi tne national motion was passed by nine states to two. As to the powers of Uongress urged the greatestextension possible. He wouia oppose no grant ox power which less-ened the power of the states ana increased tne power oi the nation-al government. Me urged that Congress be allov/ed to tax exportsas-well as imp-^rts (3). he wanted the whole power of commercialregiilatlon given to uongress without restrictions (4). He favoredthe pov/er of uongress to subdue rebellion in any state althoughthe Governor, nimseif, snouia oe ??t its head, and even if the Leg-islature reiused to apply for nelp. tie said, The general govern- (5) ment should enio-^-f^e ooedience in all cases where it is necessary iThe one excerption to his desire to increase the power of Congress,was in the case of emission of bills of credit. (D^-arrand, II, 631. (2) Ihid, II, 290. (3) Ibid, II, 306.(4) Ibid, II, 450. (5) Ibid, II, 56 Before Morris was out of his teens he had seen the fal-lacy of paper money, and had opposed its emission at every opr^ortunity. He favored the interests of the creditor, comraercial class asopposed tothe debtor,agrarian class. During his residence inPennsylvania he was one of the leaders in opposition to bad financiclegislation, which had as its basis paper money. Following out thesame principles in the Convention, Morris moved that the clause, to emit bills on the credit of the United States, be struckfrom the powers of Congress (1). The friends of pfiper money urgedthe retention of the clause, but Morris motion prevailed. The powers that were granted to Congress Morris inter-preted in the broadest manner, giving evidence of what later becameFederalist pnlitlcnl doctrines. When the clause prohibitingthe states from laying embargoes was under consideration, Morrisopposed its adoption because he thought that the general powerto regulate
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