With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them…

James Madison
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With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. ✨ James Madison's letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831.
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