If all powers pertaining to the general welfare and defense wer- given. how could any further power remain to begranted? Yetthesamesection proceeds to enumerate the power to declare war. to raise r nd support armies. to provide and maintain a navy. to provide for calling forth the militia. these are evidently powers granted for the public defense. but if they were granted by the mere mention of pnblic defense in the former clause. their subsequent grant is a mere repetition. The power to borrow money. to coin the same. to establish pc toffices and postroads. to pass naturalization and bankruptcy laws. recited in the same section. pertains to the general welfare6. but if. as is claimed. all the powers needed for the general welfare had been alrealy provided in the clause where that phrase before occurs. how could it be neccss.W that these or any others be granted over again? Thi. would be a pleonasm unworthy of an instrument of such high charac! Cr.
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