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January 22, 1819 in Kentucky Gazette

Domestic News January 22, 1819

Kentucky Gazette

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Constitutional Amendment, Banks, Bledsoe Resolutions, State Banks, Congress Restrictions

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky

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Mr. Bledsoe substituted part of his anti-bank resolutions with a proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting states from establishing banks and restricting Congress to banks in states approving by two-thirds legislative vote, subject to state conditions. The article opines the Constitution is sufficient without amendment.

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Mr. Bledsoe has substituted for a part of his resolutions against all banks, a resolution for amending the constitution of the United States, so as to prohibit any state hereafter from establishing any bank, and restricting congress to the establishment of a bank or branches in such states as may, by vote of two-thirds of their legislature, pass a law allowing it; the bank to be subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be imposed by the state law. We should suppose that the constitution is good enough without this amendment.

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Politics

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Constitutional Amendment Banks Bledsoe Resolutions State Banks Congress Restrictions

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Mr. Bledsoe

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Mr. Bledsoe

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Mr. Bledsoe substituted part of his resolutions against all banks with a resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution prohibiting states from establishing banks and restricting Congress to establishing banks or branches only in states that pass a law allowing it by two-thirds legislative vote, with the bank subject to state-imposed conditions and restrictions.