James Monroe actually said...

This power can be granted only by an amendment to the Constitution and in the mode prescribed by it.

I am of opinion that Congress do not possess this power; that the States individually cannot grant it.

According to my judgment it cannot be derived from either of those powers, nor from all of them united, and in consequence it does not exist...

On full consideration of the subject I have thought it would be improper for the Executive to communicate the letter called for unless the H...