All in the general welfare clause. Duh. You don't seem to understand the Constitution at all.
See what I mean? A progressive ignorant of the Constitution because of their disdain for it. The General Welfare Clause applies to the 18 enumerated powers
only. It was a way for the founders to avoid an obnoxious 4,000 page document like Obamacare. They basically stated that within those 18 enumerated powers (such as defense), the federal government was empowered to do what was necessary. It did not mean the federal government could do
anything. If it did, they could easily say "it is in the interest of the general welfare to shut down the freedom of press". Idiot.
Here...learn something for
once. 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)