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I think it's in our "General Welfare" to keep this oil spill contained and to clean it up and the accident happened out in federal waters after all.
Our Founding Fathers did not intend "General Welfare" to include cleaning up oil spills. There is nothing in the Federalist Papers that speaks about oil spills