Advancement Quote by Bill Drayton

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

— Thomas Jefferson

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer…

— James Madison

The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction.…

— Andrew Napolitano

If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the…

— James Madison

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take…

— James Madison

I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known…

— James Madison

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate…

— Ed Crane

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those…

— Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise…

— Thomas Jefferson

To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established…

— James Madison

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted…

— James K. Polk

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as…

— Alexander Hamilton