Wouldn't reading in the "general welfare clause" as you and all leftists do make the central governments constitutional powers UNlimited? I thought the constitution limited the powers of the central government but I can't think of one single federal program, real or imagined, that wouldn't come under the all encompassing "general welfare clause". Can you?
And when after painstakingly listing the powers granted to the central government (such as provide post roads, coining money, etc.) then saying "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers ", did you think the foregoing powers means all the ones specifically listed and any other power under the sun? I don't think so either. Maybe you should reconsider.
"Wouldn't reading in the "general welfare clause" as you and all leftists do make the central governments constitutional powers UNlimited? I thought the constitution limited the powers of the central government but I can't think of one single federal program, real or imagined, that wouldn't come under the all encompassing "general welfare clause". Can you?"
Of course I can. Gambling, for instance, seems to have little to do with "general welfare", thus, it is left up to the States.
And now, since I politely answered your challenge above in bold, perhaps you'll have the courtesy and intellectual honesty to answer my own challenge to you, which is to *specify* what power, if any at all, you ascribe to the legal, written, codified "general welfare" clause in our Constitution.
I'll be waiting...