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Showing posts with label James Madison "general welfare". Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2012

James Madison: The General Welfare Clause

"With respect to the words 'general welfare', I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.  To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
James Madison