As I recall, the Federalist Papers discuss the “general welfare” in some detail, and it doesn’t include “free” healthcare....
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[As I recall, the Federalist Papers discuss the “general welfare” in some detail, and it doesn’t include “free” healthcare....]
It does now. The Constitution is a living evolving document, you know. The framers of the Constitution knew how stupid they were so they wrote it so that it could be re-interpreted according to the wisdom of the time as needed.
This wisdom is obviously best represented by the government and it’s only natural that in our current enlightened age, government committees will decide for us what our “rights” will be.
Old “rights” such as the right to keep and bear arms or the right to freedom of religion, speech, assembly and petition or states’ rights will have to make room for the newer, better rights such as the right to free health care, the right to equal outcomes, the right to not have to make decisions for ourselves about what is and isn’t good for us and the right to be protected by a benevolent federal government from any harm inflicted upon us by greedy private businesses.
“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated.”
—Thomas Jefferson