Federalist No. 32
Should the union control the states in terms of finance, the states’ needs, the peoples’ good senses, and the states’ fearful desire to maintain control would keep this power from becoming interrupted. However, should this not occur and should the states remain in full power of their own economics, they would have power beyond what they laid out in their constitution.
Usually for a government to be created, each part of it must submit and lose their power. In the case of this constitution, this is not so. The states will not lose their powers of finance when the national government gains its own. Only in the circumstance of taxations on imports and exports will the national government have sole rights (though states can ask congress should they wish for their own taxation laws) according to Article One Section Ten of the constitution. Congress can also establish a uniform rule of naturalization in the country as well. These two exceptions were carefully thought out and planned. With their exception, the constitution does not establish laws for state taxation, and it is therefore implied that states are free to do what they please. In fact, the existence of the law in article one section ten helps to secure the rights of the states, as it implies, by the fact that states are …show more content…
The first is the “necessary and proper” clause, which states that the national government can make all laws that are necessary and proper for its functioning. The second is a clause that sets that the national laws & constitution will be the supreme laws of the United States. However, these clauses should be of no concern, because they have no effect on the government — in fact, if they were completely left out, the constitution would function exactly the same. Their purpose is only to state things that are already true of any functioning national
Should the union control the states in terms of finance, the states’ needs, the peoples’ good senses, and the states’ fearful desire to maintain control would keep this power from becoming interrupted. However, should this not occur and should the states remain in full power of their own economics, they would have power beyond what they laid out in their constitution.
Usually for a government to be created, each part of it must submit and lose their power. In the case of this constitution, this is not so. The states will not lose their powers of finance when the national government gains its own. Only in the circumstance of taxations on imports and exports will the national government have sole rights (though states can ask congress should they wish for their own taxation laws) according to Article One Section Ten of the constitution. Congress can also establish a uniform rule of naturalization in the country as well. These two exceptions were carefully thought out and planned. With their exception, the constitution does not establish laws for state taxation, and it is therefore implied that states are free to do what they please. In fact, the existence of the law in article one section ten helps to secure the rights of the states, as it implies, by the fact that states are …show more content…
The first is the “necessary and proper” clause, which states that the national government can make all laws that are necessary and proper for its functioning. The second is a clause that sets that the national laws & constitution will be the supreme laws of the United States. However, these clauses should be of no concern, because they have no effect on the government — in fact, if they were completely left out, the constitution would function exactly the same. Their purpose is only to state things that are already true of any functioning national