[I]nstituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good ... would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. ... [The Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.
Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, 1791
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