[Loud Mime]

Madison's speech on the Cod Fisheries Bounties brought up similar points. I've posted this snip before, but find it valuable.

"If Congress can apply money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may establish teachers in every State, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public Treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may undertake the regulation of all roads, other than post roads. In short, everything, from the highest object of State legislation, down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress; for every object I have mentioned would admit the application of money, and might be called if Congress pleased provisions for the general welfare."

[Jacquerie]

In a tyrannical ruling, Scotus overturned almost 300 years of common, American interpretation of the "provide for the common defense and general welfare" clause. The case was Helvering v. Davis (1937) which rationalized Social Security and turned the notions of enumerated powers and the 10th Amendment on their heads. Congress itself was to monitor what passed for enumerated powers.

I am not aware of a single law since that was overturned because it exceeded enumerated powers. It will be something of a miracle if any of Hussein's assaults on our Supreme Law are found unconstitutional.