Question

"It has been much urged that a bank will give great convenience in the collection of taxes . . . yet the Constitution allows only the means which are ‘necessary,’ not those which are merely ‘convenient’ . . . there is not one [power] which ingenuity may torture into convenience, in some instance or other, to someone so long a list of enumerated powers. It would swallow up all the delegated powers, and reduce the whole to one power . . . . Therefore it was that the Constitution restrained them to the necessary means; that is to say, to those means without which the grant of the power would be nugatory (useless)." -Source: Thomas Jefferson on the National Bank, 1791 What Framers of the Constitution would have been most likely to disagree with Jefferson’s views, as expressed in this excerpt?

Answer 1

The framer of the Constitution would have been most likely to disagree with Jefferson’s views, as expressed in this excerpt, is Alexander Hamilton.

Step-by-step explanation:

The dispute over the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States led to the classical statements of strict and loose construction of the Constitution by Jefferson and Hamilton. Jefferson, asked by Washington, provided a formal statement to question the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States. After Washington asked, Hamilton responded to these arguments against his bank bill by writing the classic defense of loose construction.