The anti-constitutional revolution of 1937 continues: the supreme court, of the corporate United states hands down Helvering v. Davis, declaring the (second) Social Security Act (of 1935) to be lawful:
The scheme of benefits created by the provisions of Title II [of the act] is not in contravention of the limitations of the Tenth [a.k.a. Article X of Amendment.
When money is spent to promote the general welfare, the concept of welfare or the opposite is shaped by C[ON]gress, not the states.
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Congress may spend money in aid of the “general welfare.”
NOTE: Helvering v. Davis essentially redefined the General Welfare Clause from a limitation on government power into an expansion of it.
[restored 7/17/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Senate Joint Resolution 51, 50 Public Statutes at Large 121, 127 (1937).
Richard A. Epstein, Foreword to The Dirty Dozen: How twelve Supreme Court cases radically expanded government and eroded freedom, by Robert A. Levy and William Mellor, (New York: Sentinel, 2008), xiv.
Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619, 640, 645 (1937)
www.law.cornell.edu/socsec/course/readings/301us619.htm
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