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Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?

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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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