[Future U.S. Supreme Court Justice] James Iredell: “Where is the power given to them to do this? They have power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations. They have no power to define any other crime whatever.”

   "Where is the power given to them to do this? They have power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations. They have no power to define any other crime whatever. . . . The powers of the government are particularly enumerated and defined: they can claim no others but such as are so enumerated."–-[Future U.S. Supreme Court Justice] James Iredell, July 30, 1788. [Debates In The Convention Of The State Of North Carolina, On The Adoption Of The Federal Constitution. Eliot’s Debates, Vol. IV. Pg. 219-20]