If their response is in the “General Welfare” clause, ask “Why, then, did the authors of the Constitution set up an elaborate set of checks and balances, with carefully enumerated powers, when they could have just said ‘The Federal Government shall promote the General Welfare’ and saved themselves a long, hot summer in Philadelphia?”
When I told a Moonbat that the Preamble’s “to our posterity” clause could prohibit Abortion, she said the Preamble doesn’t count. I said “you mean the WE THE PEOPLE part”?