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A quote from James Madison

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.

— Letter to Edmund Pendleton (a Virginia delegate to the First Continental Congress) [January 21st, 1792]

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