Edmund Randolph on the General Welfare Clause
TAC membershipsย help us produce more educational tools like this. Members can download this video and readย the full transcript here. At the Virginia ratifying convention, Edmund Randolph said that reading the general welfare clause as a broad grant of power would...
Constitution Essentials: The General Welfare Clause
Originally recorded 11-19-2009: Rob Natelson, a leading expert on the framing and adoption of the United States Constitution, offers a lesson on the general Welfare clause. He discusses the original meaning of the words themselves, the meaning of “general...