Sentences with phrase «general welfare clause»

But I can top that... you are an ignorant, heartless miser who has never heard of the general welfare clause of our inspired Constitution.!

the general welfare clause is qualified by enumerated powers.

more abuse of the general welfare clause huh???

Not exact matches

When Hamilton tried to justify his ambitious economic program through a liberal reading of the Constitution's «necessary and proper» clause and by appealing to the transparently rhetorical «general welfare» of the eighth section of Article I, Madison's resistance might have been predicted.

The powers of the Federal Government are enumerated in the Constitution, but many of those clauses have been debated extensively without resolution: interstate commerce, general welfare, etc..

[T] he [General Welfare] clause confers a power separate and distinct from those later enumerated, is not restricted in meaning by the grant of them, and Congress consequently has a substantive power to tax and to appropriate, limited only by the requirement that it shall be exercised to provide for the general welfare of the United General Welfare] clause confers a power separate and distinct from those later enumerated, is not restricted in meaning by the grant of them, and Congress consequently has a substantive power to tax and to appropriate, limited only by the requirement that it shall be exercised to provide for the general welfare of the United general welfare of the United States.