James Monroe actually said...

A power to establish turnpikes with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execu...

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

The Secretary of State, one of the ministers referred to, has already expressed a desire that Mr. Russell's letter should be communicated, a...

I transmit herewith to Congress copies of letters received at the Department of State from the minister of Great Britain on the subject of t...