said by Kommie2:Its part of the right to pursue happiness
And its the Federal Governments task to promote the general welfare of its citizens as said in the constitution,.
You should not allude to things you're not familiar with. The general welfare clause is not all-encompassing. Here is what some of the guys who WROTE the constitution had to say about it:
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The Constitution allows only the means which are necessary, not those which are merely convenient, for effecting the enumerated powers. If such a latitude of construction be allowed to this phrase as to give any non-enumerated power, it will go to every one, for there is not one which ingenuity may not torture into a convenience in some instance or other, to some one of so long a list of enumerated powers. It would swallow up all the delegated powers, and reduce the whole to one power, as before observed" - Thomas Jefferson, 1791
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"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated." - Thomas Jefferson, 1798
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"This specification of particulars [the 18 enumerated powers of Article I, Section 8] evidently excludes all pretension to a general legislative authority, because an affirmative grant of special powers would be absurd as well as useless if a general authority was intended." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 83
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"No legislative act
contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78
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It seems that the people who wrote the constitution had something many now lack:
Common Sense. I mean, it's only common sense to realize that if the general clause applies to anything, all those enumerated powers are completely useless and shouldn't have even been enumerated, since "general welfare" can pretty much mean anything.