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'General Welfare' and it's Meaning in The U.S. Constitution
The Patriot Act and the "phony" war on terror is slowly taken away our civil liberties and burning away at the U.S. Constitution.  With that being said I feel I need to continue to add credence in my posts to defend our rights and freedoms as Americans.
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Americans are beginning to question the constitutionality of proposed programs such as government run healthcare. In response to these challenges, a misinterpretation of the 'General Welfare' clause seems to be the common support for such Federal programs. This article examines what the General Welfare clause actually means.US Constitution Preamble: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. " The Federal Government has continued to expand its power using misinterpretations of the Constitution as its defense. The General Welfare clause is one of the most commonly missentrupreted and seemingly the vaguest of all of the clauses in the Constitution. There is much that can be written on the subject, however ... more

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