It would swallow up all the list of enumerated powers, and reduce the whole to one phrase.

Therefore it was that the constitution restrained them to _necessary_ means, that is to say, to those means without which the grant of the power must be nugatory.
The convenience was then examined.

This had been stated in the report of the secretary of the treasury to congress, to consist in the augmentation of the circulation medium, and in preventing the transportation and retransportation of money between the states and the treasury.
The first was considered as a demerit.

The second, it was said, might be effected by other means.

Bills of exchange and treasury drafts would supply the place of bank notes.