They also discussed the intended purpose of granting the power. If all that matters is that "they discussed the power", and that argument is carried over to the Constitution itself then all that matters is that "they wrote the power", and any consideration of intent falls by the wayside.
The United States is a sovereign state, numbnuts.
The Unites States is a republic of sovereign States.
I must have missed that. They discussed THE intended purpose of granting the power? Or were they simply discussing the pressing need at the time?
Again, if that was THE purpose, they would have written it differently.