Abstract

Editorials

The article comments on various socio-political issues and developments from around the world. Opinions of the politicians of both U.S. political parties with regard to the powers of the General Government are affected by the politicians' own relation to the General Government. When they are in opposition, and can get nothing from it either for themselves or their constituencies, they are very apt to be champions of "the reserved powers" of the States. When they are in power, on the other hand, or are seeking some grateful application of Federal funds, there is hardly any length to which they are not prepared to go in defence of "the implied powers" of the United States. The article discusses in detail the exceeding vagueness of the notions apparently entertained by a great many Republican writers and orators of the Stalwart school as to the effect of the war on State rights.