Question of power over corporations and Control of congressional elections. Compensation of members of Congress. Question of taxing exports. Debate on the regulation of foreign and in- Taxation of commerce for protection or for POWER TO MAKE TREATIES AND THEIR FORCE Various depositories of this power proposed. Question of requiring ratification of treaties Question of majority of senators required President Washington's construction of the Decision of Supreme Court-Treaties may RIGHT TO ORIGINATE MONEY BILLS Effort to confine revenue and appropria- tions to House of Representatives. Distinction between revenue and appropri- Exclusive right of House of Representa- Fear of influence of new States in the West. Limitations proposed to preserve control of Number admitted to be limited. Right to use national force against States. Resolution to declare laws of the Union Conclusion. Desire for unanimity in signature. Three members present refuse to sign. Letter accompanying its transmission to Twelve Amendments proposed by the first Ten of them adopted by ten States. Twelfth Amendment adopted (1804). Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION I INTRODUCTORY THE political debates of the present generation leave a painful impression of the neglect of constitutional study. A failure to apprehend the reasons upon which constitutional provisions were founded has too frequently led astray the public judgment. In this neglect numerous theories of construction have found their source, which in turn have led to additional debate, until the public records of discussion on constitutional questions have become a massive collection, which obscures, far more than it enlightens, the popular mind. In politics, as in religion, the commentaries have superseded the authority, as they have darkened the simplicity, of the original text. It has become a duty of patriotism to awaken the spirit of constitutional inquiry, emancipated from the prejudices of party. The existing histories of the Constitution, and the legal commentaries upon it, afford am |