Can do Quote by 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine…

— Bill Drayton

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited…

— Clarence Thomas

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

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

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

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects,…

— James Madison

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

As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

— Judy LaMarsh

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