Constructionists believed that the federal government can't do anything that isn't explicitly permitted to them by the Constitution.

建构主义者认为，联邦政府不能做任何宪法没有明确允许他们做的事情。

Strict constructionists of the Jeffersonian school, of whom there were many on occasion even in the Republican party, had taken a view that the President could do nothing that he was not specifically authorized by the Constitution to do.

杰斐逊学派的严格建构主义者，有时甚至在共和党中也有很多人，他们认为总统不能做宪法没有特别授权他可以做的任何事情。