Presidential Commission on National Service and National Commission on Volunteerism: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Child and Human Development of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Establishment of a Presidential Commission on National Service and a National Commission on Volunteerism, March 13, 1980

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Side 414 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
Side 513 - The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite ; and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed. This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances ; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defence.
Side 508 - It is more than possible, that the preservation of rights of this description was not particularly in the view of the framers of the constitution, when the clause under consideration was introduced into that instrument.
Side 509 - The case being within the words of the rule, must be within its operation likewise, unless there be something in the literal construction so obviously absurd, or mischievous, or repugnant to the general spirit of the instrument, as to justify those who expound the constitution in making it an exception.
Side 509 - It is necessary to go further, and to say that had this particular case been suggested the language would have been so varied as to exclude it, or it would have been made a special exception.
Side 522 - Finally, as we are unable to conceive upon what theory the exaction by government from the citizen of the performance of his supreme and noble duty of contributing to the defense of the rights and honor of the nation, as the result of a war declared by the great representative body of the people, can be said to be the imposition of involuntary servitude in violation of the prohibitions of the Thirteenth Amendment, we are constrained to the conclusion that the contention to that effect is refuted...
Side 513 - These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies, or the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.
Side 78 - I have determined that we shall, do something for the Nation's unemployed youth because we can ill afford to lose the skill and energy of these young men and women.
Side 528 - Congress. It results that the power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power found in the Constitution.
Side 58 - ... for a minimum of one year and a maximum of two years.

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