“”and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States;”
I think that pretty much sums it up.
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That is a quantifier for the expenditure of any tax dollars or credit not a power in and of it self.
Where this common defense and general welfare a power in itself there would be no limits to federal power, and all forgoing powers would be meaninglessly redundant.
“A public attack against American Citizens by an individual(s) with a device that is designed to inflict hideous damage, I think the Founders would consider that an act of war, suitable for the Government to handle in the legal sense.”
They had Arsons who were just as deadly as this terrorist some of them were even motivated by loyalist sympathies. They were not necessarily the business of the Federal government even then.
Washington is for dealing with big international problems. Relatively small scale stuff like this that is effectily entirely contained with in a state can be handled by that state internally. Washington need only concern itself with the international implications of the insolent. They do not need to deal with the domestic side.
So as I said before What Washington needs is information regarding this man’s international contacts, they do not need the man himself.
No, that is not correct. The clause you speak of is in the preamble:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
Yeah, but don't forget the Government was the people, or the Militia back then, they were just getting set up.
So as I said before What Washington needs is information regarding this man’s international contacts, they do not need the man himself.
I mentioned up thread that was a good case, maybe that's why they're hustling the Saudi connection guy out of the Country.
If they can make that connection, this becomes an act of war, imo.