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tangent4ronpaul
01-10-2011, 02:44 PM
"With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." -- James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

RSLudlum
01-10-2011, 03:07 PM
Good quote indeed but even better if it is sourced :)

Letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831 (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/James_Madison_letter_to_James_Robertson)

VBRonPaulFan
01-10-2011, 04:16 PM
i like this one too (it's in regards to the welfare clause as well)


To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.