GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Enumerated Powers, First Principle
5 May 2017
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Gov 312l - guest speaker thomas on bill of rights 2. 3. Three pitfalls: rather than limiting powers, bor actually expands powers, bor is redundant, rights are already implicitly given, bor obscures other important rights in constitution and puts them in a hierarchy. Pitfall 1: rather than limiting powers, bor actually expands powers: main arg of hamilton and federalist 84, three principles, 1. To place a limit on the exercise of govt power is to admit that the govt has the power who exercise is being limited: 2. If you are under a monarchy, then unless a power is denied to the king in writing, assume king has it: 3. If you are under a govt of enumerated powers like the one the const. would set up, then unless a power is granted in writing, assume that the govt doesn"t. Were they really just an afterthought that was manifested in the.
