General welfare clause

And then the 1930s, the economy of the 30s.

And then the Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, and the Necessary and Proper Clause.

These are the ones that your social studies teacher will tell you basically allow the federal government to do anything it wants.

So, all right, well, let's go back and see what they said about it.

He's the enemy of tyranny, the assassin of Julius Caesar, the ambitious king.

And in Brutus number five, which was published in 1787, December, December of 1787, he titles his essay, "On the Necessary and Proper, and the General Welfare Clauses: and On Congress's Power to Tax; The States Will Be Destroyed." This is the title of his essay.

So, uh, opposed to these essays that we're gonna sample from today are, of course, the famous Federalist essays, the so-called Federalist Papers, which were written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, uh, some of the great leaders of the Federalist faction.

So, um, Brutus, he says about the, the, uh, clauses, he says, "In the first article, eighth section, it is declared that Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.

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I just wish that they would amend the Constitution and take away the General Welfare Clause because that has been used so many times by Congress to do stuff like this.

I fully agree.

That is my wish.

I think you just need to do this.

Don't worry about that right yet.

And I often think there would be dangers in taking away the General Welfare Clause.

It's the Supreme Court that has ruined this with its absurd interpretation, expansive interpretation.