January 14, 2011

Quotes on the "General Welfare" Clause.

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated." -Thomas Jefferson

"With respect to the two words 'general welfare' I have always regarded them as qualified by the details 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 their is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." - James Madison

What Our Constitution Permits - Walter Williams