P@triot
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Thanks dimwit...you just proved nothing with that quote from one of the biggest tools in U.S. history. As every educated American has stated over and over throughout history - yes, the "General Welfare" clause was "comprehensive". It was "comprehensive" by design - for their 18 enumerated powers and not one damn more.Alex Hamilton:
"..These three qualifications excepted, the power to raise money is plenary, and indefinite; and the objects to which it may be appropriated are no less comprehensive, than the payment of the public debts and the providing for the common defence and "general Welfare." The terms "general Welfare" were doubtless intended to signify more than was expressed or imported in those which Preceded; otherwise numerous exigencies incident to the affairs of a Nation would have been left without a provision. The phrase is as comprehensive as any that could have been used; because it was not fit that the constitutional authority of the Union, to appropriate its revenues shou’d have been restricted within narrower limits than the "General Welfare" and because this necessarily embraces a vast variety of particulars, which are susceptible neither of specification nor of definition."
Dumb ass.
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If you're going to post a quote - post one that actually backs up your position.