Old-age Pensions: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, Second Session, on Old-age Pensions. February 20, 21, and 28, 1930U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930 - 343 strani |
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Stran 169 - We choose rather to plant ourselves on what we consider impregnable positions. They are these : That a State has the same undeniable and unlimited jurisdiction over all persons and things, within its territorial limits, as any foreign nation; where that jurisdiction is not surrendered or restrained by the Constitution of the united States. That, by virtue of this, it is not only the right but the bounden and solemn duty of a State to advance the safety, happiness, and prosperity of its people, and...
Stran 169 - But the proposition that there are legislative powers affecting the nation as a whole which belong to, although not expressed in the grant of powers, is in direct conflict with the doctrine that this is a government of enumerated powers.
Stran 130 - Any person who by means of a wilfully false statement or representation, or by impersonation, or other fraudulent device obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets any person to obtain: (a) A pension certificate to which he is not entitled...
Stran 239 - I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.
Stran 116 - In the last analysis, the complaint of the plaintiff State is brought to the naked contention that Congress has usurped the reserved powers of the several States by the mere enactment of the statute, though nothing has been done and nothing is to be done without their consent; and it is plain that that question as it is thus presented, is political and not judicial in character, and therefore is not a matter which admits of the exercise of the judicial power.
Stran 110 - Mayne, like a shewer from the South to the North, and from the North to the West, and then downe to the South againe.
Stran 310 - One of the original members shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years...
Stran 170 - The powers affecting the internal affairs of the States not granted to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, and all powers of a national character which are not delegated to the National Government by the Constitution are reserved to the people of the United States.
Stran 342 - The State department may make such additional investigation as it may deem necessary, and shall make such decision as to the granting of...
Stran 115 - to provide for the common defense and general welfare" to cases which are to be provided for by the expenditure of money would still leave within the legislative power of Congress all the great and most important measures of Government, money being the ordinary and necessary means of carrying them into execution.