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To: Looking for Diogenes
Congress is supposed to provide for the defense of the country (Air Force) and the general welfare (Social Security).

Air Force does not equal defense.

General welfare does not mean social security.

If you read the article or documents pertaining to the constitution you will find:

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
Thomas Jefferson

"With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
James Madison

Its really a simple concept.

Regards

J.R.

60 posted on 12/14/2003 7:24:29 PM PST by NMC EXP (Choose one: [a] party [b] principle.)
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To: NMC EXP
Air Force does not equal defense. General welfare does not mean social security.

So then constitutional amendments should be required to authorize each of those?

62 posted on 12/14/2003 9:43:23 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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