[277] Ibid. No. 41.
[278] 1 Stat. 229 (1792).
[279] 2 Stat. 357 (1806).
[280] In an advisory opinion which it rendered for President Monroe at his request on the power of Congress to appropriate funds for public improvements, the Court answered that such appropriations might be properly made under the war and postal powers. See E.F. Albertsworth, "Advisory Functions in the Supreme Court," 23 Georgetown L.J. 643, 644-647 (1935). Monroe himself ultimately adopted the broadest view of the spending power, from which, however, he carefully excluded any element of regulatory or police power. See his "Views of the President of the United States on the Subject of Internal Improvements," of May 4, 1822, 2 Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 713-752.
[281] The Council of State Governments, Federal Grants-in-Aid, 6-14 (1949).
[282] 127 U.S. 1 (1888).
[283] 255 U.S. 180 (1921).
[284] 262 U.S. 447 (1923). See also Alabama Power Co. v. Ickes, 302 U.S. 464 (1938).
[285] 160 U.S. 668 (1896).
[286] Ibid. 681.