"The federal Government has been hitherto limited to the specified powers, by the Greatest Champions for Latitude in expounding those powers. If not only the means, but the objects are unlimited, the parchment had better be thrown into the fire at once."

James Madison commenting on Alexander Hamilton's, "Report on Manufacutures," that looked to open up a highway of government involvement in areas not specified in the Constitution, under Hamilton's expansive view of the "welfare clause" in the Preamble, that would inlclude "the general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufacturing, and of commerce," and who knows what else.

Hamilton's 1971 proposal was defeated, but no more.

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