Got your Constitutional right here Buttsoiler hack:
'“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"
You're welcome. You oughta read that thing.
This is
really going to sting buttsoiler. Since you are illiterate - please ask an adult to read it and explain it to you. The preamble of the constitution is not part of the 18 enumerated powers delegated by the states and which the federal government is explicitly restricted to. But what buttsoiler.....it gets
much worse for you:
The founders were
very clear that the power belonged to the states. For obvious reasons, the states delegated 18 specific powers to the federal government (18 items that made more sense for the federal government to control so the states would be unified in them - such as currency). Now within those 18 enumerated powers which they are explicitly restricted, the states used the language "general welfare" so that they wouldn't have to create a 4,000 page document outlining each and every item that would fall under those 18 enumerated powers.
Here is Thomas Jefferson himself on two separate occasions explaining as much:
“
Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action” -
Thomas Jefferson (June 6, 1817)
“
[We] disavow, and declare to be most false and unfounded, the doctrine
that the [Constitution], in authorizing its federal branch 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, has given them thereby a power to do whatever they may think, or pretend, would promote the general welfare–which construction would make that of itself a complete government, without limitation of powers.… The plain sense and obvious meaning were that they might levy the taxes necessary to provide for the general welfare by the various acts of power therein specified and delegated to them, and by no others. –
Thomas Jefferson (December 24, 1825)
Damn
Pogo-Loves-Phallic-Objects-He-Can-Bounce-On, you were just exposed as being
completely ignorant of the U.S. Constitution and your own structure of government. If you had an ounce of sense you would feel shame and humiliation like few else. Unfortunately, being an uneducated, uninformed, brain-washed hatriot that you are, you're too dumb and high to even realize the depths of the humiliation you should feel right now. Epic beatdown
over.
