Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Monorprise
That is a quantifier for the expenditure of any tax dollars or credit not a power in and of it self.

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

222 posted on 04/20/2013 3:28:50 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 199 | View Replies ]


To: Las Vegas Ron

Im sorry I must have confused your Statement for the actual meanginfull clause Article 1 Section 8 clause 1:
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”

This clause includes those lines as qulifers for the forgoing enumerated powers.

The Preamble has no power whatsoever. A Preamble is simply a statements of intended propose & justification for the document.


237 posted on 04/20/2013 3:38:06 PM PDT by Monorprise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 222 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson