[lit-ideas] Re: Federal Role in Katrina Restoration: Is It Permissible?
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:26:36 -0400
Walter Williams wrote: "Some people might say, "Aha! They forgot
about the Constitution's general welfare clause!" Here's what James
Madison said: 'With respect to the two 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.'"
Benjamin Franklin put it more aptly when he addressed the
Constitutional Convention with these words:
"Much of the strength & efficiency of any Government in procuring
and securing happiness to the people, depends, on opinion, on the
general opinion of the goodness of the Government, as well as well
as of the wisdom and integrity of its Governors."
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