The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said And Meant by Robert G. Natelson

Author:Robert G. Natelson [Natelson, Robert G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apis Books
Published: 2014-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

The Constitution contained five other good government measures: No federal officeholder could accept benefits of any kind from foreign governments without the consent of Congress.[501] Like the states,[502] the federal government was barred from granting any title of nobility.[503] As the successor to the Confederation, the federal government would assume full responsibility for the Confederation’s debts.[504] And regular records had to be kept and published of all receipts and expenditures.[505]

In the British Parliament and American colonies, provisions for revenue (taxes) and for appropriations frequently had been lumped together under the generic names of “money bills” or “supply bills.” After Independence, state legislatures began to move in the direction of the modern state “single subject rule,” by which each bill is limited to one general topic. The first move in this direction seems to have been addressing revenues and appropriations in different bills. The Constitution did not adopt the modern single subject rule, but it did contribute to the trend by repeatedly treating taxes and appropriations as separate categories and as distinct from regulatory measures.[506]

The Constitution prohibited the federal government from spending any money unless pursuant to a valid appropriation.[507] It required revenue (tax) bills to originate in the House of Representatives.[508] It permitted the Senate to amend revenue bills, but prevented the Senate from adding terms unrelated to revenue unless the House had done so first.[509]

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