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Originally Posted by Willravel
Depending on who you ask, the General Welfare clause (a.k.a. the bane of Libertarians) can be interpreted legally to allow things like, say, federal healthcare, without having the pass an amendment. I'm sorry the anti-Federalists couldn't wrestle that out of the Constitution, but it's there. New Deal with it.
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"No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights." — Edmund A. Opitz
But the framers obviously set up the general welfare clause as a trojan horse to gullibly trick the founders of this country to let them do whatever they deem necessary and proper for the general welfare of the united states.
your 'new deal democrats' seriously shredded the constitution and you know it, but i'm glad we're all happy with the oligarchy we've become where your rights are fluidly interpreted depending upon how much of a threat the government declares you to be.
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