Original sentence: "  This was generally interpreted liberally, to include all public highways
Edited sentence: "Having considered the bill this day presented to me entitled 'An act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements,' and which sets apart and pledges funds 'for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses'."The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.45 James Madison states clearly this Divided Sovereignty:.As Climate Change, wars to defend US access to foreign oil since 1990, and Al Qaeda terror attacks funded by oil-dollars, the reasons the Constitution limited Federal infrastructure involvement is beginning to gain awareness.Franklin proposed that the Federal government be enumerated a power to tax for building highways and canals.George Mason reminded the delegates of the problems with the King's transportation monopoly (examples East India Company and Boston Tea Party).I am constrained by the insuperable difficulty I feel in reconciling the bill with the Constitution of the United States to return it with that objection to the House of Representatives.In Federalist No.James Madison recommended it be raised to a power to form corporation to accomplish tasks needed by the Federal government.Later it was generally interpreted liberally, to include all public highways.On March 3, 1817 President Madison's veto affirmed the Divided Sovereignty of the Constitution relative to highways and canals:.The "post Roads" restriction was vote on Sept 14, 1787 per Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787.The Convention voted 8 states to 3 to restrict Federal sovereignty to tax for roads no more than was required to defend free speech by assuring letters could be delivered.The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.The legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, and it does not appear that the power proposed to be exercised by the bill is among the enumerated powers.The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.This awareness is augmented by significant wave of innovation that followed ending the Federal communications monopoly in 1982.Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite