Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” ~ James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US PresidentSource: letter to Edmund Pendleton, January 21, 1792