FOURTH RESOLUTION.

The fourth resolution stands as
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 The fourth resolution stands as follows:

 '''Fhat the General Assembly doth also express is deep reFret that spirit has, in snndfy instances, been manifested by the Federal Government, to enlarge its powers, by forced constructions of the constitutional charter which defines them; and that indica- lions have appeared of a design to expomd certain general phrases (which, having been copied from the very limited grant of powers n the former Articles of Confederation, were the less liable to be misconshued,) go as 10 destroy the meaning and effect of the paric- uiar enumeration which necessarily explains and limits the general phrases, and SD as to consolidate the States by degrees, into one sovereignty; the obvious tendency and inevi- table result of which would be to transform the present Republican system of the United States into an absolute, or at best mixed, monarchy.''

 The first question here 10 be considered is whether spirit has, in sundry instances, been manifested by the Federal Government To enlarge is powers by forced constructions of the constitutional charter

 The General Assembly, having declared their opinion merely by regrelting in gene ral terms that forced constructions for cnlar- ging the federal powers have taken place, it does not appear to the committee necessary to go into q specification of every instance to which the resolution may allnae. The Alien and Sodiuon Acts being particularly named i, asucceeding resolution, are of course to be understood as included in the alluson. Omit ting others which have less occupied public attention, or been less extensively regarded as unconstitutional the resolution may be presumed to refer particularly to the Bank Law, which, from the circumstances of is passage, as well as the latitude of construc- ton oa which il is founded, strikes the atten- lion with singular force; and the Carriage Tax, distinguished also by circumstances in it's history having a similar tendency. Those instances alone, if resaiting from forced con- struction, and calculated 10 enlarge the pow CTS of the Federal Gouerament, as the com mitfee cannot but conceive to be the ease, sufficiently warrant this part of the resolu- lion. The Committee have not thought il in- i cumbeHi on them to extend their attention to laws which have been objected 10, rather as varying the constitutional distyibntiou of pow CTS in the Federal Government, than as an absolute enlargement of them; because iu- stances of tliis sort, however important il Their principles and tendencies, do not aa pear 10 fall strictly within the text unde review.