[r-q-tek86]

Then his identification of the problem with the "general welfare" section mentioned in Verse 47 is particularly prescient.

[Publius]

The justification I hear from my friends on the Left is, "But it's for a good cause!" That is because the initial point for my friend is government-as-provider, not the Constitution.

Mr. Bryan's artillery barrage hit a target there.

[Loud Mime]

Madison's speech on the Cod Fisheries Bounties brought up similar points. I've posted this snip before, but find it valuable.

"If Congress can apply money indefinitely to 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 establish 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 establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may undertake the regulation of all roads, other than post roads. In short, everything, from the highest object of State legislation, down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress; for every object I have mentioned would admit the application of money, and might be called if Congress pleased provisions for the general welfare."