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Yes, and then Article I, Section 8 goes on to explain what counts as the ‘common Defence and general Welfare’ when it enumerates the Congress’s powers. That’s
by eadmund 2y ago
Yes, and then Article I, Section 8 goes on to explain what counts as the ‘common Defence and general Welfare’ when it enumerates the Congress’s powers.
That’s not Sovereign Citizen nonsense — it’s very basic constitutional law. Congress doesn’t have the ability to pass national rent control, for example.
- yakz 2y agoThe Supreme Court has decided what ‘the general welfare’ means, and it is not limited to the listed powers. This information is not difficult to find, as would be expected given the last 90ish years of spending that is obviously not limited to the list of powers.
- rbanffy 2y ago> Congress doesn’t have the ability to pass national rent control, for example Rent control should be easy to fit within "general welfare".
- kristjansson 2y agoCongress not only _could_ control rents nationally, congress _has_ controlled rents nationally [1] and those controls survived the review of the court. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Price_Control_Act_of_1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Price_Control_Act_of...