I thought you might be a Constitutional Scholar because I think only an expert could read the first enumerated power:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
And argue that determining safety of products sold as food or drug does not provide for the general welfare.
Well, again, this is why we need to get familiar with this document and get some SOUND teaching to go along with it (”sound” constitutional teaching is almost non-existent).
Art I, Sec 8, Cl 1 enumerates the power of Congress to collect taxes. “General welfare” is a justification for collecting taxes but is not itself an enumerated power. It is important to remember that the founders were very concerned about limiting specific powers to the central government.
I suppose part of a good constitutional education would also include critical source documents like certain Federalist and Anti-federalist Papers.
BTW, I am a graduate of Regent University School of Law but have not yet passed the bar. I have studied the Constitution formally and informally for the past ten years or so. A very good and committed Christian University, Regent, however, taught Constitutional Law the usual way law schools teach it which is based on mostly unconstitutional 20th century SCOTUS decisions. Bar Review Programs (not Regent University) tell you for Constitutional Law, “don’t actually READ the Constitution because it will only confuse you.” Of course, because the legal profession bases “Constitutional Law” on mostly unconstitutional SCOTUS decisions of the 20th century.
It is an uphill battle. The Left is firmly entrenched in law schools as it is in so much of America institutions. Yes, it is a daunting and uphill battle. Don’t know how the populace will get the education they need about the Constitution, but they’ve got to get it - because constitutionally based freedom is their destiny.
BTW, Regent DOES include a history of the Christian foundations of the law that goes back to Aquinas and includes Blackstone. It is excellent and probably should also be included in learning about the Constitution. Very few law schools if any, except Regent, teach the Judeo-Christian roots of our common law or the genesis of the Constitution. How I hate the Left.
There are so many things I wish I could do. This is one of them. What are you going to do, start a school? No, it’s too limited. The need is so great right now to teach as many as possible as quickly as possible the incredibly wonderful riches of freedom and this most miraculous and precious political/legal document which protects that freedom.