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> It's stories like this that make me wish we had the term "national security" as narrowly defined as the term "treason". The U.S. Constitution has Article I,
by Perceval 13y ago
> It's stories like this that make me wish we had the term "national security" as narrowly defined as the term "treason".
The U.S. Constitution has Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 that reads:
> The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;
People on the political left seem to favor a broad interpretation of the powers that "general welfare" gives to the federal government. Why isn't there a similar acceptance of the broad powers that "common defense" grants the federal government in the same clause?