"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
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letter to Edmund Pendleton, January 21, 1792
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    ' Promote the General Welfare " rather than committing constructive fraud against the " We the People "
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