Free Palestine
FallenMorgan
Junior Chimp
Posts: 8,022
Political Matrix
E: -10.00, S: -10.00
|
 |
« on: June 19, 2010, 02:24:15 PM » |
|
|
« edited: June 19, 2010, 02:27:39 PM by Morgan »
|
I actually agree, here. The General Welfare clause is not a blank check for the federal government to do whatever it wants.
"With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
-James Madison.
And it is not a matter of simply calling everything we don't like "unconstitutional."
|
