The Supreme Court decides Cohens v. Virginia: the Constitution authorizes Congress to charter corporations only in federal enclaves—not the States. Also,
The opinion of the Federalist has always been considered as of great authority. It is a complete commentary on our Constitution, and is appealed to by all parties in the questions to which that instrument has given birth. Its intrinsic merit entitles it to this high rank, and the part two of its authors performed in framing the Constitution put it very much in their power to explain the views with which it was framed. These essays having been published while the Constitution was before the nation for adoption or rejection, and having been written in answer to objections founded entirely on the extent of its powers, and on its diminution of State sovereignty, are entitled to the more consideration where they frankly avow that the power objected to is given, and defend it.
[restored 12/24/2021]
Amen! (Secular meaning.) Would that our government school’s children were reading the Federalist instead of the UN charter. –– JL
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article I, Section 8 [Clause 18]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheaton (19 U.S.) 264, 389418, 419 (1821).
Herman Belz, Winfred Harbison and Alfred H. Kelly, The American Constitution: Its Origins and Development (1948; New York: W.W. Norton, 1955), 285, 311, 627.