What were state responsibilities? General welfare?
First of all dumb-ass...."General Welfare" is not welfare like ignorant progressives believe. But being that none of you have ever actually read the U.S. Constitution, it's not at all surprising that you are clueless about that.
The "General Welfare" clause referred to the 18 enumerated powers delegated to the federal government by the states. It had
nothing to do with the welfare of people,
stupid. Here is Thomas Jefferson himself...
“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)
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[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)
Thomas Jefferson knows more about the U.S. Constitution than you and your precious little Supreme Court which has been stacked with political activists rather than justices. It's
painful having to educate you ignorant progressives.