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WHAT CONGRESS MAY AND MAY NOT DO
The powers granted by the States
to the Congress under the Con
stitution are strictly defined and
limited. In brief, they include the
following :
1. To lay and collect taxes, du
ties, imposts and excises.
2. To pay the debts and provide
for the common defense and gen
eral welfare of the United States.
3. To borrow money an the
credit of the United States.
4. To regulate commerce with
foreign nations and among the sev
eral States,
5. To coin money and fix stand
ards of weights and measures.
6. To establish postoffices and
post roads.
7. To grant patents to inventors
and copyrights to authors.
8. To declare war, and to raise
and support armies and a navy
and make rules for the government
of military forces.
9. To call out the militia Ln case
of emergency.
In general, Congress has author
ity to make all laws necessary to
carry into execution the powers
granted to the Federal Government
by the Constitution. But through
out the document the rights of the
individual States are carefully safe
guarded. For example, each State has the
sole right of appointing the officers
and prescribing the training of its
militia. Each State can determine
for itself who constitutes its militia.
In New York the Militia consists
of every able-bodied male between
the ages of 18 and 45, whether en
rolled in the National Guard or
not. Congress has exclusive juris
diction over military reservations,
but has no power to establish them
except by the consent of the States
in which they are located.
Congress was given power to
establish a uniform rule of natural
ization, but that does not carry
with it the right to say who may
vote in any given State. Each
State sets up its own qualifications
or voters and can change them at
AW. At the time of the adoption
f the Constitution practically every
State limited the franchise to tax
ayers or property-holders.
Other important restrictions are
placed upon the power of Congres
iy the Constitution. It cannot en
.ct a law retroactive in its applica
tion an "ex post facto" law. That
's, it cannot make illegal any ac
committed before the law prohibit
ng it was passed. It cannot im
ose taxes or duties upon articles
exported from any State. It can
vot suspend the writ of habeas
orpus. This does not sound so
important today, but the framers
if the Constitution had a vivid rec
ollection of the custom of their
British rulers of putting people in
'ail and refusing to produce them
in court.
The purpose of the Constitution
to vest supreme power in Congress,
except for the rights reserved to
he States, is indicated in the pro
vision for the passage of laws
)ver the veto of the Executive.
An act of Congress does not be
come effective until it has been
signed by the President, with the
sxception that if the President re
fuses to sign it, Congress may, by
a two-thirds vote, repass the bill.
It thereupon becomes a law re
gardless of the President's dissent.
It is also within the power of
the Congress to dismiss from of
fice any member of Executive or
Judicial branches of the Govern
ment, including the President. This
is done by the process of impeach
ment, in which the House of Rep
resentatives has the sole power to
indict and the Senate the sole
power to try any official indicted
or impeached by the House. Nu
merous Federal Judges have thus
been impeached and dismissed from
the public service and one Presi
dent, Andrew Jackson, was im
peached by the House of Repre
sentatives but was acquitted by the
Senate.
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AN IMPORTANT TRANSLATION
ON March 24, 1844, a German
scholar, Lobegott Freidrich
Konstantin Tischendori, arrived at
St. Catherine's monastery on the
Sinaitic peninsula. His name, Lobe
gott, meaning, "Praise God." On
this particular trip
he had been through
the libraries of Al
H exandria and Cairo,
pV as well as the con
vents of the Greek
M and Armenian
W churches, without
W success. His visit
to St. Catherine's
I monastery was in
the nature of a last
Ihope.
Lobegott was giv
en tree access to
did not at first discover anything
of value. In the evening, however,
Bruce Barton
a strange thing occurred. There
was sent up to his room as kindl
ing for the fire a basket containing
some leaves of an old manuscript
which he examined. To his amaze
ment he found a number of bits of
the Old Testament in Greek. With
great difficulty Lobegott secured
permission to take back to Leipsic
forty-seven leaves. They proved to
be part of one of the oldest Greek
manuscripts of the Old Testament
in existence.
Immediately, the eager scholar set
to work through an influential friend
to secure the rest of the volume,
but the monks had learned its value
and would not give it up. In 1853,
he went back to the convent and
was welcomed, but could not find
a trace of the lost parchment. But
in 1859, he returned for a third
time, having now the authority of
the Czar of Russia. Many valuable
manuscripts were placed in his
hands, some of which he bad not
seen on either of his previous vis
its, but the chief treasure had dis
appeared. On -his last evening he
walked with the steward of the
convent in the garden and was in
vited to his room for refreshment.
as they sat together the steward
said casually, "1, too, have a copy
oi the Septuagint," and took down
and untied aparcel. '.
Imagine the almost delirious joy
of Lobegott when he saw not only
the Old Testament pages he had
glimpsed in 1844, but the New Tes
tament complete! It was one of
the most thrilling moments in the
history of patient, scientific re
search. It gave us one of the old
est, finest and most accurate of all
Biblical manuscripts. Until the rev
olution in Russia this so-called Sin
aitic had been in the library of
Petrograd for a half-century, the
jhief literary treasure of the Greek
Church.
There are only a few of these
extremely old manuscripts, and the
three most precious of them are
this Sinaitic, the Vatican at Rome,
md the Alevandrine, presented to
Charles I of England in 1628 and
placed in the British Museum upon
its establishment in 1753. It is in
teresting that of the three finest
Bible records one is in the pos
session of Protestants, one of Ro
man Catholics and one of the Greek
Church. Each sect is most gen
erous in permitting their ,use by
scholars.
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Under the direction of George L.
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Attending school, Grover Jamison
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p. m.
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