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Yes, Article 1, Section 8 enumerates the Terms general welfare and continues with explanations and qualifications; only the right wing, never gets it.*sigh* Well.. "how we get things" has nothing to do with what the Constitution says! The congress has passed laws and courts have upheld MANY unconstitutional things, should I list some of those to refresh your memory?How did we get, wars on crime, drugs, and terror; they are nowhere enumerated in our Constitution. Providing for the general welfare is explicitly enumerated. The general welfare is not the specific welfare. You cannot win claiming any specifics, for the general welfare.It is about definitions, dear. There is no general warfare clause nor any common offense clause."Badfare" isn't even a fucking word.
Can you not explain what Madison understood "general welfare" to mean?
No, the Constitution isn't about arbitrary definitions you pull outta your ass. It took years of deliberation and careful thought in every single line. The Federalist Papers serve as an outline and expanded explanation. If want to know what something in the Constitution means, you look to the Federalist Papers, not the dictionary. In Federalist #41, Madison explains how "general welfare" cannot possibly mean what modern liberal progressives claim. If it did, Madison asserts, there would be no purpose in enumerating powers or even the rest of the Constitution itself.
"General welfare" is specifically referring to the listed things in Article I Sec. 8. Nothing else is authorized or implied and no further powers are granted. So regardless of what a dictionary says, if it's not in Article I Sec. 8, it's not "general welfare." And this is explained by the man who wrote the damn thing.
The "general welfare" clause has been highly debated through the years but you have to go back to what the author explained he meant. That is found in Federalist #41. The "general welfare" IS specific welfare, it's outlined fully in Article I Sec. 8.
Well, I don't know about "right wing" anymore... Constitutional Conservatives get it, understand it and defend it rigorously. The progressives are who DON'T get it, whether right or left.
And Art. I Sec. 8 doesn't "enumerate the terms" it enumerates the powers granted to congress. Congress either has the power to do something or it's left to the states and people respectively. At least, that's how it was intended to be.