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Quotation from Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank by Alexander Hamilton
“every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.”
Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank, Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791) (Avalon Project transcription)
The general principle on which the whole opinion rests, stated near its opening.
Citation: "every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society." — Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank, Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791) (Avalon Project transcription). (id hamiltons-reports-and-opinion-on-the-bank-q4)
Portrait: Google Arts Project - Alexander Hamilton (1792 portrait) by John Trumbull, John Trumbull, Public domain.
