Representative Conyers, you have a long distinguished record of public service, but when you cannot properly cite the Constitution as the Congressional Judiciary Committee Chairman, then it is time for you to retire. As an attorney, I am offended.
Sir, there is no F'n "good and welfare" clause in the Constitution. If I had written such bull-shenanigans on a law school exam, I would have failed. Maybe Rep. Conyers means the general welfare clause, but even the general welfare clause does not grant Congress the rights it has now claimed under H.R. 3590. However, James Madison felt the "general welfare" clause was limited and Madison was the primary author of Constitution. Check the below quote from him:
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands;
they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury;
they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;
they may assume the provision of the poor;
they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads;
in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."
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