If experience points out the necessity for an enlargement of these powers, let us apply for it to those for whose benefit it is to be exercised, and not under-mine the whole system by a resort to over-strained constructions.
Jackson advocates for seeking constitutional amendments through proper channels rather than misinterpreting existing powers.
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