tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post1514632261998344625..comments2023-11-03T04:54:28.663-07:00Comments on Reason Reigns: The Declaration of Independence Mandates the Separation of State and (church, economics, science, education, art)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-74981735929451874352010-10-05T03:09:30.576-07:002010-10-05T03:09:30.576-07:00"The Constitution says, 'Congress shall h..."The Constitution says, 'Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, etc., provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.'...I suppose its meaning to be that Congress may collect taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare, in those cases wherein the Constitution empowers them to act for the general welfare. To suppose that it was meant to give them a distinct, substantive power to do any act which might tend to the general welfare is to render all the enumerations useless, and to make their powers unlimited."<br />-1792, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Albert Ellery BerghIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-73045939349252286732010-07-09T01:50:34.600-07:002010-07-09T01:50:34.600-07:00"I think all the world would gain by setting ..."I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty."<br /><br />-- Thomas Jefferson, July 7, 1785<br /><br />It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation.... Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs. <br /><br />Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 22, 1787Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.com