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(1776-1846) US Congressman for South Carolina (1825-1833), banker, and author

The general welfare clause

If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 8, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories welfareTags William Drayton

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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