Welfare

Well-going, well-being; prosperity in its most comprehensive sense. " We the People of the United States, in Order to. promote the general Welfare.. do ordain and establish this CoNSTi TnTioN..." ' • " The Congress shall have Power To Lay and collect Taxes, Duties," etc., to "provideforthe.. general Welfare of the United States..." » Promote the general welfare. This phrase was adopted from the Articles of Confederation, and, though seemingly vague, » Torriano v. Toung, 6 Car. & P. 8 (1838). » Anworth v. Johnson, 6 Car. & P. 239 (1832).

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— generally Taylor, Land. & T. § 343; 1 Wood, Land. &' T. S 365. » [State V. Yellow-Jacket, &c. Mining Co., 5 Nev. 430 (1868), Beatty, 0. J.; EontendorflE v. Taylor, 4 Pet. 861 (1880); Steinle v. Bell, 12 Abb. Pr. 176 (1872). * Dexter v. Shepard, 117 Mass. 484 (1875); 1 id. '254 » Constitution, Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 6. « See 1 Bl. Com. 274; Social Science Assoc, 1871, B78. On the "weight of authorities," see 10 Va. Law J. 582 ■(1886). was employed in a rigidly restrictive sense to signify ' ' the concerns of the Union at large, not the particular policy of any State." ' Experience had proved to the people that they required a national government for national purposes. The separate governments of the separate States, bound together by the Ai-tioles of Confederation alone, were not sufficient for the promotion of the general welfare of the people in respect to foreign nations, or for their complete protection as citizens of the confederated States. For this reason they established the government of the United States, and defined its powers by a constitution, which they adopted as its fundamental law, and made its rule of action." See Police, 2; Pkeamblb; Peohibition, 2; Tax, 2.