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To: imardmd1
imardmd1 responded to my question: If Congress has the "enumerated Power to make laws regarding promoting and providing for the general welfare", then what limit would exist aside from whatever any particular Congressman might think is beneficial?"

With: "None. He just has to get a majority of both houses to agree with him."

I think we are talking past each other because you are talking about what the government has been doing, and I am talking about what the Constitution says and what our Founder intended when they wrote it.

It was obediance to the Constitution which was intended to "promote the general welfare", not the arbitrary actions of Congress despite their best intentions.

66 posted on 07/31/2012 5:16:09 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell
None. He just has to get a majority of both houses to agree with him.

This is a statement of fact, of what it takes to get a bill passed to become law. Not that I would approve of such a thoughtless undertaking. One would hope someone would stop unConstitutional proposals, and do that early.

67 posted on 07/31/2012 7:21:23 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Be forearmed)
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