Dr Morgan said he was pleased the amendment was also defeated as he said it would have changed the constitutional nature of the church by requiring bishops to appoint an assistant bishop.

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To prevent their abuse, Hamilton explained why the Framers believed direct taxes required explicit constitutional constraints, in addition to the general restraining nature of a constitutional arrangement of limiting government solely to delegated powers.

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First, to survive a constitutional challenge, the subject matter must be economic in nature and affect interstate commerce, and second, it must involve activity.

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Indeed, effective advice as to the nature and consequences of a suspect's Constitutional rights is the very essence of the solution devised by Miranda to combat the compulsion inherent in custodial interrogation.

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