United States v. Worrall

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• explaining that Congress is authorized to “create, define, and punish crimes and offenses, whenever they shall deem it necessary and proper by law to do so, for effectuating the objects of the government”
• federal courts may punish only those acts declared to be crimes by Congress
• “It will be admitted, that all the judicial authority of the Federal Courts, must be derived, either from the Constitution of the United States, or from the Acts of Congress made in pursuance of that Constitution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).