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To Provide For The General Welfare - A History of the Federal Spending Power (Paperback)
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To Provide For The General Welfare - A History of the Federal Spending Power (Paperback)
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To Provide for the General Welfare traces the course of the
constitutional controversy over the spending power and the role of
that power in driving an expansion in federal activity and
authority from 1787 forward. Since the founding of the Republic,
American statesmen have seen the federal government as a fitting
source of tax dollars to finance national improvement and growth,
but for decades the constitutional authority for this funding was
the subject of fierce and bitter controversy. Some, like Alexander
Hamilton, read the Constitution as granting authority to Congress
to spend for these purposes. Others, like James Madison and Thomas
Jefferson, believed that a constitutional amendment was necessary
to confer this authority. The true scope of the constitutional
authority given to Congress to levy taxes to provide for the
"general welfare of the United States" was a prominent political
and legal issue until the Civil War and was not resolved by the
Supreme Court until the 1930s. This book documents how Americans
came to read their Constitution to help them improve their roads,
schools, colleges, cultural institutions, and health care, and to
provide themselves with social insurance and safety-net programs
for the vulnerable. The book will contribute better understanding
of the critically important spending power and its potential in
helping us confront our most difficult twenty-first-century
challenges, as well as a better appreciation of its significance in
contemporary constitutional thought. With the basic constitutional
issue put to rest, the prudent and effective exercise of that power
should have a positive impact on the resolution of the many grave
problems that Americans are confronting now and will continue to
confront in the years ahead.
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