Yeah, I didn’t mean to use ‘general welfare’ to mean what a modern person would mean, I tried to be originalist about it. I know there really shouldn’t be any condradictions per se, but there were a lot of disagreements.
There were certainly disagreements among the Founding Fathers about many things in the Constitution. However, the “modern” (i.e., incorrect) interpretation of the General Welfare Clause is worlds away from what even the most pro-centralized government founders (Hamilton, for instance) intended.