General Welfare Warnings
Supporters of the monster state want you to believe that the “general Welfare clause” empowers the government to pretty much do whatever it wants. And while that couldn’t be further from how things are supposed to be, many leading Anti-Federalists...
General Welfare isn’t Supposed to be a Blank Check
The general welfare clause is not a blank check. A lot of people think it is. They believe the federal government can spend on anything and everything as long as it benefits a lot of people. But James Madison argued that people who take this view โstoop to a...
Mr. Madison’s War on the General Welfare Clause?
David S. Schwartz (University of Wisconsin Law School) has postedย Mr. Madison’s War on the General Welfare Clauseย (57 pages) on SSRN.ย Here is the abstract: The General Welfare Clause of Article I, section 8, clause 1 of the Constitution (“Clause...