Now I think there were Federalist papers that were written to help make that point and to define the fact that to promote general welfare is not a clause big enough to run tanks through and say that anything that seems like a nice thing to do for somebody is constitutional.
The speaker discusses the interpretation of the 'general welfare' clause in the Constitution.
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