[RightWhale]

There is plenty of authority. By design, the Constitution was intended to create a Federal Gov't. General Welfare covers a lot of territory.

[Servant of the 9]

There is plenty of authority. By design, the Constitution was intended to create a Federal Gov't. General Welfare covers a lot of territory.

It didn't until FDR subborned the court in 1937.

There is an aweful lot of law to be rolled back over the next few generations.

So9

[NeoCaveman]

With respect to the two 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. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted. --- James Madison

[PhilipFreneau]

>> By design, the Constitution was intended to create a Federal Gov't. General Welfare covers a lot of territory.

I assume you are being facetious. According to James Madison (the Father of the Constitution) the General Welfare powers are enumerated in Article 1, Section 8. For example, one of the General Welfare powers provided the federal government is "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes" (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3). Another is to Coin Money (Clause 5). And another is to establish Post Offices and post Roads (Clause 7). The authorized powers of the Federal Government are few and defined. Most of the power the Federal Government claims today has been usurped by tyrants.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

There is plenty of authority. By design, the Constitution was intended to create a Federal Gov't. General Welfare covers a lot of territory.

Are you willfully ignorant of the words in the Constitution, accidentally ignorant, or spreading falsehoods? By design the Constitution was intended to create a very limited government with very limited and enumerated powers. The General Welfare clause is limited to the enumerated powers in Article 8, I think. The Interstate Commerce clause is another area the liberals try to stretch to expand the powers of the government under the Constitution.

That is why we must have originalist judges on the Supreme Court. By the way, Walter Williams covered this very question yesterday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

[screwtheusa]

You are misinformed. James Madison is laughing at you.