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Just for more support I got this from another site: [In Federalist No. 41, James Madison asked rhetorically: "For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?" Madison was replying to anti-Federalist writers who had warned that the 'general welfare' clause opened the way to unlimited abuse. He haughtily accused those writers of "labour[ing] for objections" by "stooping to such a misconstruction" of the obvious sense of the passage, as defined and limited by those powers explicitly listed immediately after it.]

Dodge, D.C.

This is a quick response to Terry Berg about our military. The things the governement is allowed to do to protect/promote the "general welfare" are those things specifically mentioned in the Constitution which include the military. Welfare programs (Being a charity organization), education, health care etc. are not listed as powers granted by the People to the Federal Government in the Constitution, but all these powers are claimed by the Fed Gov under a false interpretation of the "general welfare clause." For example: Like Madison said, the government may build roads because that is a power granted by the Constitution... but only post roads! The government may not "undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads" even though taking care of all the roads may appear to be the correct interpretation of "general welfare." Madison explicitly says that it is not what the Framers meant by "general welfare." They spelled out specifically what they meant in case any future generations would be confused and the government would try to take more power than it should have. We just have to read the rest of the Constitution!

Dodge, D.C.

Where is this quote from? When did he say/where did he write this?

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