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To: mvpel

“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.


94 posted on 09/09/2009 7:57:47 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
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

98 posted on 09/10/2009 6:57:33 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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