On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:43:41 -0700 (PDT), "Robert M. Gary"
wrote in
:

On Jun 30, 3:11*pm, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:
Mike wrote:

What school of Constitutional authority do you subscribe to, if any?


The 10th amendment..
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people." No where in the constitution does it
authorize a Social Security program.

-Robert



The Preamble to the Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity,
provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and
secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do
ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America.” ...


http://supreme.justia.com/constituti...l-welfare.html
SPENDING FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE
Scope of the Power

The grant of power to “provide ... for the general welfare” raises
a two-fold question: how may Congress provide for “the general
welfare” and what is “the general welfare” that it is authorized
to promote? The first half of this question was answered by Thomas
Jefferson in his opinion on the Bank as follows: “[T]he laying of
taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which
the power is to be exercised. They [Congress] are not to lay taxes
ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts
or provide for the welfare of the Union. In like manner, they are
not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare,
but only to lay taxes for that purpose.”581 The clause, in short,
is not an independent grant of power, but a qualification of the
taxing power.