Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1879 — A LAWYER'S VIEW OF IT. [ARTICLE]

A LAWYER'S VIEW OF IT.

• The following is copied from a correspondence published in the Indianapolis Journal of the 7th instant from this place: Item 1. One primal doctrine of Deinocm«y is to deny to Congress of any implied constitutional power. The legal-tender net depends for its validity on an implied power. Therefore* a Supreme Court acting upon Democratic tenets, would declare all legaltcoder paper money voW and valueless. Jndge Daniel, in his treatise on Negotiable Instruments, refering t«* the Supreme Court decision in 12 Walace, 457, affirming the constitutionality of the acf of February 25, 1863, says: *‘lt ** * went forth without authority, and will go back without respect.” The god of modern Democracy is a strict and a literal construction ot the Constitution against the Nation and in. flavor of the State.