danielpalos
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y'all have even less but are on the Right Wing.He's read nothing beyond a headline here or there and the parts taken out of context that some article he agrees with points at.I doubt he has ever read the Constitution. And if he has, he is too stupid to comprehend it.Incorrect. They are NOT examples, they are enumerated powers and the federal government is restricted to those powers. Everything else is reserved to the states and the people. Please quote the portion of the Constitution that specifies they are only examples.Those particular powers are examples and qualifications of what was meant by promoting and providing for the welfare General, of the United States. It really is that simple.Yes, we absolutely need to provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility. Now, how does that relate to the federal government being restricted to specific enumerated powers and not having a blank check to do whatever it wants to do?this is what we are supposed to be doing:Okay, so you agree then that the federal government is restricted to a handful of enumerated powers and does not have the authority to do whatever it wants in the name of "general welfare". Good to know, because you've been arguing the opposite for a very long time.Yes, they did an most excellent job at the convention with our federal Constitution and supreme law of the land.Is that what they meant when they wrote it?Fixing Standards for the Union covers it for the general welfare.Yes, WE should but the federal government is restricted to specifically enumerated powers, or did you forget that?Equal protection of the laws is in our Constitution. We should be promoting the general welfare at every opportunity.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.