sentences:  and delayed signing it in order to consult with his cabinet.Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Attorney General Edmund Randolph concurred with Madison that the federal government was one of strictly enumerated powers, and bolstered that argument by citing the Tenth Amendment, advancing the position of states' rights and limited federal power.Secretary Hamilton’s famous rebuttal on the Bank submitted to Washington on February 23, 1791, introduced the doctrine of “implied powers,” based on the principle of broad construction of the Constitution.