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To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power
By Theodore Sky
449 pages
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- University of Delaware Press
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- Newark, DE
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- 2003
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Synopsis
This book 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, ...
This book 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, together with Thomas Jefferson, believed that a constitutional amendment was necessary to confer it. The true scope of the constitutional authority given to Congress to lay 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.
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Table of contents
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- To Provide for the General Welfare *
- To Provide for the General Welfare - A History of the Federal Spending Power *
- Contents 7
- Preface 9
- Acknowledgments 13
- To Provide for the General Welfare *
- Introduction 19
- I - Framing and Ratification *
- 1 - The Framing of the General Welfare Clause 33
- 2 - Ratification and the General Welfare Clause 55
- II - The Framing of the First Precedents *
- 3 - The Washington Administration 79
- 4 - Hamilton's Interpretation— Washington's Legacy 93
- III - The Virginia Presidents and the General Welfare Clause: the Quest for a Constitutional Amendment *
- 5 - Jefferson's Dilemma 111
- 6 - Madison's Precept 130
- To Provide for the General Welfare *
- To Provide for the General Welfare - A History of the Federal Spending Power *
- Contents 7
- Preface 9
- Acknowledgments 13
- To Provide for the General Welfare *
- Introduction 19
- I - Framing and Ratification *
- 1 - The Framing of the General Welfare Clause 33
- 2 - Ratification and the General Welfare Clause 55
- II - The Framing of the First Precedents *
- 3 - The Washington Administration 79
- 4 - Hamilton's Interpretation— Washington's Legacy 93
- III - The Virginia Presidents and the General Welfare Clause: the Quest for a Constitutional Amendment *
- 5 - Jefferson's Dilemma 111
- 6 - Madison's Precept 130
- 7 - Monroe's Turn 144
- IV - John Quincy Adams and the Jacksonians: a Clash of Visions *
- 8 - John Quincy Adams's "Spirit of Improvement” 167
- 9 - Internal Improvements in the Age of Jackson 198
- 10 - Madison's Testament, Story's Commentary, and the Postulates of the Antebellum Presidents 212
- V - Lincoln's Role *
- 11 - Lincoln's General Welfare Clause 243
- 12 - Lincoln's General Welfare Legacy 262
- VI - Reconstruction, Realignment, Revolution, Resolution *
- 13 - Reconstruction, T. R., and Wilson's Realignment 283
- 14 - The New Deal and Judicial Resolution 304
- VII - Modern Exercise *
- 15 - Truman to Ford—toward Consensus 327
- 16 - Carter to Clinton—accommodating Budget and National Investment Imperatives 342
- VIII - Constitutionalism and National Progress: the General Welfare Clause Contribution *
- 17 - The Spending Power, the Constitutional Amendment, and the Evolving American Presidency 357
- 18 - "Perseverance” 371
- Appendix - The Constitution, Article I, Section 8 381
- Notes 383
- Bibliography 422
- Index 430