Article I, Section 9, Clause 7
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
The Federalist and Federalist essays
- quoted bySuggestedCassius 9, ¶ 15
The 9th section further provides, that a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all publick monies, shall be published from time to time. Thus the people will have it in their power to examine the appropriations made of the revenues and taxes collected by Congress ; and if they are not satisfied in…
Cites "The 9th section" and reproduces the second part of this clause nearly verbatim.
- quoted bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article I, ¶ 98
No money ſhall be drawn from the Treaſury, but in conſequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular ſtatement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money, ſhall be publiſhed from time to time.
The paragraph prints Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 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, ¶ 99
AS all appropriations of money are to be made by law, and regular ſtatements thereof publiſhed, no money can be applied but to the uſe of the United States.
The paragraph restates the requirement that appropriations be made by law and statements of public money be published, which is Article I, Section 9, Clause 7.
Other writings
- quoted bySuggestedMassachusetts convention, January 23, 1788, ¶ 28
…their joint and respective proceedings; and the publishing, from time to time, a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money, none of which shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.
The passage lists the checks on Congress and repeats the wording of the clause on money drawn from the treasury; it does not name the clause by number.
- cited bySuggestedNew York convention, June 27, 1788, ¶ 21
I beg the committee to keep in mind, as an important idea, that the accounts of the general government are, “from time to time,” to be submitted to the public inspection.
The speaker says the accounts of the government are, "from time to time," to be submitted to public inspection, which describes the statement and account of receipts and expenditures "published from time to time" in Article I, Section 9; he does not name or number it.
- cited bySuggestedVirginia convention, June 12, 1788, ¶ 92
The congressional proceedings are to be occasionally published, including all receipts and expenditures of public money, of which no part can be used but in consequence of appropriations made by law.
The speaker says the congressional proceedings are to be published, including all receipts and expenditures of public money, "of which no part can be used but in consequence of appropriations made by law"; Article I, Section 9, seventh clause has "but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law".
- quoted bySuggestedVirginia convention, June 17, 1788, ¶ 39
The restriction in the 6th clause, that no money should be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law, is an exception to the power of paying the debts of the United States; for the power of drawing money from the treasury is consequential of that of paying…
Gov. Randolph speaks of "The restriction in the 6th clause" (the seventh clause of Article I, Section 9 as numbered in this library) and gives its words: no money should be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.
- quoted bySuggestedVirginia convention, June 9, 1788, ¶ 25
We are told, by that paper, that a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
The speaker says "We are told, by that paper" and gives the words of the clause on a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures, then refers to "the words of the Constitution"; the words are not in quotation marks.
On Article I, Section 9 as a whole
- cited bySuggestedHouse, August 15, 1789, ¶ 3
- cited bySuggestedHouse, June 8, 1789, ¶ 29
- cited bySuggestedFederal Farmer 4, ¶ 9
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