Posted on 02/02/2017 5:27:32 PM PST by 198ml
I confess that today I was triggered.
Watching CNN in the office, as is my habit while I work, I heard Carol Costello repeat a common claim made by those on the Left who have zero understanding of the American founding. In this particular segment of CNN Newsroom, she asked her guests about something President Trump said today.
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president said that the people in that room were united by their common humanity. We are not just flesh and bone and blood, we are human beings with souls, Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government, but that freedom is a gift from God.
And Costello found that strange.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativereview.com ...
Clearly, the term was stated as, promote the general welfare, not, to provide for the general welfare. "They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare.... [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please." -- Thomas Jefferson "Our tenet ever was that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated, and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they may raise money. " -- Thomas Jefferson letter to Albert Gallatin, 1817
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