re: #425 jamesfirecat

“Promote the General Welfare” does not mean that the government is supposed to take care of us. That’s a loose interpretation.

I can claim and argue that waterboarding promotes the general welfare of the people that doesn’t make it constitutional.

Loosely interpreting that “general welfare” line can allow us to pervert the intentions of the founders. If the founders wanted the federal government to run a public education system they would’ve put it into the Constitution.