[NobleFree]

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely, for the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, the establishing in like manner schools throughout the union; they may assume the provision of the poor.... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America."

And yet even some FReepers appeal to "general welfare" in defense of a federal program they favor.

[Lurkinanloomin]

We had a real life demonstration of why they excluded the children of foreign nationals from being President and yet there are still people who insist that anyone born of one American citizen parent anywhere in the world is a natural born citizen.
They would make Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids eligible just so their ineligible candidate could run.