The Constitution Provides Answers to Our Federal Debt Problem
The national debt, currently at $36.3 trillion and growing, is a boulder weighing on economic prosperity. The money lent to ...
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Spending Clause
According to this intermediate view, the “common Defence and general Welfare ... Constitution. Modern-day jurisprudence on the Spending Clause begins with the New Deal-era case of United States ...
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The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
In the late 1790s Alexander Hamilton, an outspoken advocate of loose construction of the Constitution as well as of using the Necessary and Proper Clause ... “general Welfare” and enables us ...
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The Constitution Provides Answers to Our Federal Debt Problem
to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States …” The clause has been read to grant Congress an independent power to spend for the “general ...