1II. William Branch Giles’s Resolutions on the Secretary of the Treasury, [27 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved , That it is essential to the due administration of the government of the United States, that laws making specific appropriations of monies should be strictly observed by the administrator of the finances thereof. Resolved , That the violation of a law making appropriations of monies, is a violation of that article of the Constitution of the United States, which requires, that no...