"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." | by: | James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President |
Source: | letter to Edmund Pendleton, January 21, 1792 |
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