"An apology isn't appropriate. In the discussion, substantiation of your claim that the welfare clause grants unlimited powers would be."
You do realize that I've made MULTIPLE posts in which I've specifically named at least FOUR examples of LIMITS on the power conveyed by the general welfare clause to the federal government.
Those examples included alcohol, slavery, gambling, and secession (as well as other states' rights issues).
Unlimited powers, indeed...
"Unlimited powers, indeed...I noticed you gave those examples, but they were just given w/o the reasoning behind them. From your #358
"Just as the common defense clause authorizes unenumerated items such as national missile defense, so to does the general welfare clause authorize unenumerated government programs."
W/o some kind of reasoning behind the limits you gave, your #358 leaves me to think you hold to unlimited powers.