Article I, Section 7, Clause 1
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
The Federalist and Federalist essays
- quoted bySuggestedCassius 9, ¶ 6
Sect. 7 provides that all bills for raising revenues shall originate in the house of representatives. Here again must the anti-federists appear weak and contemptible in their assertions that the senate will have it in their power to establish themselves a complete aristocratick body; for this…
Cites "Sect. 7" and reproduces this clause's first part nearly verbatim ("revenues" for "Revenue").
- cited bySuggestedAn American Citizen, Number II, ¶ 5
…judgment and abilities, than the houſe of repreſentatives, by the longer term of their office, muſt be older and more experienced men, and are veſted with leſs effective power; for the public treaſures, the ſinews of the ſtate, cannot be called forth by their original motion.
The paragraph says the Senate cannot originate measures to raise the public treasure and so describes the origination clause of Article I, Section 7, Clause 1.
- cited bySuggestedAn American Citizen, Number III, ¶ 3
They, alone, can originate bills for drawing forth the revenues of the union, and they will have a negative upon every legiſlative act of the other houſe.—So far, in ſhort, as the ſphere of foederal juriſdiction extends, they will be controulable only…
The paragraph says the House alone can originate bills for drawing forth the revenues of the union, which is Article I, Section 7, Clause 1.
- quoted bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article I, ¶ 40
All bills for raiſing revenue ſhall originate in the Houſe of Repreſentatives; but the Senate may propoſe or concur with amendments as on other bills.
The paragraph prints Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the Constitution as signed; the quoted words are the same as the clause's (apart from capitals and the long s), though the pamphlet's punctuation differs in places.
- cited bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article I, ¶ 41
IN this the Conſtitution is an improvement upon that o• England: There all money bills muſt not only originate bu• muſt be perfected in the Houſe of Commons: Here though• the Senate cannot originate ſuch bills, yet they have the powe• of amending them, and by that means have an opportunity o• communicating their ideas to the Houſe of Repreſentatives upon the important ſubject of…
The paragraph says the Senate cannot originate money bills but may amend them, which is the content of Article I, Section 7, Clause 1.
- cited bySuggestedFederalist No. 58, ¶ 8
Notwithstanding the equal authority which will subsist between the two houses on all legislative subjects, except the originating of money bills, it cannot be doubted that the House, composed of the greater number of members, when supported by the more powerful States, and speaking the known and determined sense of…
Names "the originating of money bills" as the one exception to the equal authority of the two houses, echoing this clause's "shall originate."
- cited bySuggestedFederalist No. 66, ¶ 7
The exclusive privilege of originating money bills will belong to the House of Representatives.
Names the House's "exclusive privilege of originating money bills" as a provision of the plan, echoing this clause's "shall originate in the House of Representatives."
Anti-Federalist essays
- cited bySuggestedJames Monroe, ¶ 31
The right of originating money bills, and of impeachment, have alſo been properly aſſigned to this bran•h; the term of ſ•rvice and the principle of repreſentation upon which its houſe will be formed appear likewiſe inexceptionable.
The paragraph says the right of originating money bills has been assigned to the house of representatives, as Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 provides.
- cited bySuggestedJames Monroe, ¶ 32
Or is it to be ſuppoſed, that the right to orig•nate money bills, a thing proper in itſelf, being the more democratic branch, in the houſe of repreſentatives, will controul this diſpoſition, eſpecially when we recollect that they are both only repreſentative…
The paragraph speaks of the right to originate money bills in the house of representatives, as Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 provides. A letter of the word "originate" is lost in the scan.
Other writings
- cited bySuggestedNorth Carolina convention, July 28, 1788, ¶ 46
This weight has great authority added to it, by their possessing the right (a right given to the people's representatives in Congress) of exclusively originating money bills.
The speaker says the right of originating money bills is given to the people's representatives in Congress and recalls the Convention's debate on "the clause".
Debates in Congress
- cited bySuggestedHouse, July 12, 1909, ¶ 47
The House of Representatives was not merely given the power to originate all bills raising revenue, but it was provided by the very clause of the Constitution that fixed the basis of representation that Representatives and direct taxes should be apportioned among the States according…
The speaker names the Constitution's grant to the House of "the power to originate all bills raising revenue", which is Article I, Section 7, Clause 1.
- quoted bySuggestedHouse, July 12, 1909, ¶ 655
The Constitution provides that "all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House,” and th.at "Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, but an: duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;" and…
The paragraph quotes as a provision of the Constitution "all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House", the words of Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 except "must" for "shall".
- cited bySuggestedHouse, February 13, 1932, ¶ 353
Taxation and revenue measures must originate in the House.
The paragraph names the provision written by the framers of the Constitution that revenue measures must originate in the House, which is Article I, Section 7, Clause 1.
- cited bySuggestedHouse, February 13, 1932, ¶ 519
Why is it that our Constitution provides that bills to tax shall originate in the lower House?
The paragraph names the provision of the Constitution that bills for raising revenue originate in the House, which is Article I, Section 7, Clause 1.
- cited bySuggestedSenate, December 2, 1803, ¶ 117
The House of Representatives alone can originate a bill for raising revenue, but it cannot become a law without the concurrence of the Senate.
The speaker names the rule that only the House of Representatives can originate a bill for raising revenue, which is Article I, Section 7, clause 1.
On Article I, Section 7 as a whole
- cited bySuggestedSenate, March 15, 1962 (4), ¶ 12
- cited bySuggestedSenate, March 15, 1962 (4), ¶ 14
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