“So you’re asking James Madison to try again?”
No, I’m asking *you* to try again. And this time *try* — really try — to understand what Madison wrote.
It's pretty obvious. The scope of the power "to provide for the general welfare" is limited by, and does not expand upon, those authorized by Article I Section 8 in the Constitution.
Why are you being so sanctimonious about it?
Aided by a little sophistry on the words "general welfare," [the federal branch claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare. --Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1825. ME 16:147