James Monroe said...

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

Sensible of what I owed to my country, I felt strongly the obligation of observing the utmost impartiality in selecting ...

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

To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late ac...