"The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will."

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With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

— James Madison