VIII. OBJECTION.

“Under their own construction of the general clause at the end of the

enumerated powers, the Congress may grant monopolies in trade and

commerce, constitute new crimes, inflict unusual and severe punishment,

and extend their power as far as they shall think proper; so that the

State Legislatures have no security for the powers now presumed to

remain to them: or the people for their rights. There is no declaration

of any kind for preserving the liberty of the press, the trial by jury

in civil causes, nor against the danger of standing armies in time of

peace.”

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