Contributions by ‘Richard Primus’
Herein of “Herein granted”: why Article I’s vesting clause does not support the doctrine of enumerated powers
Richard Primus* Introduction Article I of the United States Constitution begins as follows: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States[.]”[1] That text is sometimes called the Vesting Clause,[2] or, more precisely, the Article I Vesting Clause, because Articles II and III also begin with Vesting Clauses.[3] And…
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