re: #257 jamesfirecat

Or how about this? Would you be happy if we started making constitutional amendments for every new thing we want to fund?

Actually,yes, that would be great. Can we drop everything?

And, according to your position, is seems that you think the Federal Government can spend money on anything.

the wording you used is from the preamble, those are reasons for the following, not actually part of the constitution, but, for the sake of argument, I wil allow them.

Due to the fact that the preamble only calls for …the Blessings of Liberty for ourselves and our posterity,…” we need to remove anyone that is not directly related to those who were in the United States at the time the Constitution was written. Or is there an amendment for that?

Also notice, please, it says: establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for common defense, and secure the above blessings. All of those words can infer supplying those ideals. However, promote the general welfare means the government can talk about it, (suggest it, as I pointed out in my other post, NCLB is not a law, it can not be, it is a mandate).

And yes, you do need to find constitutional backing for the things I asked about, you are the one who claims they are constitutional, not me.