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Abraham Hamilton III Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite, delivering people out of the bondage of mainstream media and the philosophies of this world. God has called you and me to be his ambassadors even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment. And now the Hamilton Corner. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. My name is Abraham Hamilton, the third host of the program, joined by producer extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated, the real J. Mac. That's Mr. Jeff McIntosh, ladies and gentlemen, and we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part time jobs with you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I, I must remind you to do so with intentionality. Understanding the primacy that God places on family, recognizing the command in the Great Commission is to make disciples. A central feature of disciple making is the cultivation of the mind.
Revisionism is a product of affirmatively rewriting historical narratives
One of the things we're going to be getting into this, in this segment straight away, that's included in the cultivation of the mind is conveying history. An accurate rendering of history. The very word itself, includes within it why it's important for history to be conveyed accurately because it is truly his story. And revisionism. And revisionism is a product of affirmatively rewriting historical narratives or intentionally omitting portions of history to serve one's purpose. Revisionism is a tool of subversion. We are living in a country and I was just looking at founding era educational materials, state level things, the NewSong England primer and when you consider the quality of offerings in our nation's history in terms of the cultivation of the mind, which he often referred to as education. And you see where we are now, honestly it brought me to tears. It brought me to tears because we have such a Darwinian hubris because of technological innovations that we've enjoyed to where we regard historical figures as being less than we are currently. But when you look at books, 5, 6 and 7 year olds used to read much of the stuff that five, six and seven year olds used to read in the 1700s and college students can't read today. And seeing how that has been, the dumbing down of our nation has been done so effectively, it's sad it's sad. It's not the end of the story. You know, some of you may remember the show we did last Friday with Stephen McDowell. it's amazing what God can do when the people turn to him, but we must turn to him. So as you're making your transition to your full time jobs, I really want to challenge you to think about this differently. To think about what you get to do on a daily basis as another day. You have another day to put a brick on the wall, so to speak. Kind of like Nehemiah, a brick on the wall of reconstruction, of reconstructing, biblical fidelity. You have an opportunity to lay another brick on the wall of reconstructing.
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Abraham Hamilton III family in the way of Christ, or constructing, maybe not even reconstructing if you have younger children, you are building a first instance. So much has been lost and intentionally forfeited. That's why we continue to see, frankly, ludicrous, provocative yet effective rhetorical devices employed in our society. Like Chuck Schumer talking about voter identification requirements being Jim Crow 2.0. I mean, that's a claim that is objectively false. So because it's objectively false, you would think, well, certainly people will see that and recognize, and, and if people say objectively false things in the public intentionally, should that eliminate any credibility they might have? But you see the opposite happen because our society has been deteriorated to such a degree. And, and the fact is, has been deteriorated intent intentionally to the degree that it has been to make it easier to manipulate people. Just like common sense and logic shows you, if you refuse to require people to identify themselves when they're casting a vote, it is because you want to make it as easy as possible for people to cheat. When subversive efforts are employed to literally say, our nation is something other than what she is. And I, and I, and I believe we need to be honest. We have to be honest. That's the only way we can move forward. But we have to identify revisionism as a subversive tactic.
We should never discuss the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade without discussing slavery
To the word of God we go Joshua, chapter four. Joshua, chapter four, verses one through seven. We've talked about this passage of Scripture before, but I want to reiterate it again as it's germane to our conversation today. Joshua, chapter four. This is what the Scripture says in verse one. Now, when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, this is when Joshua is leading the Israelites into the promised land. All right? Now, when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, the Lord spoke to Joshua saying, take for yourselves 12 men from the people, one man from each tribe and command them saying, take up for yourselves 12 stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests feet are standing firm and carry them over with you and lay them down in the lodging place where you will lodge tonight. So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe. And Joshua said to them, cross again to the ark of the Lord your God in the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder according to the number of tribes of the sons of Israel. Let this be a sign among you so that when your children ask later saying, what do these stones mean to you? Then you shall say to them, because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the covenant of the Lord when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever. Now as you heard, as I read, I emphasized that as Joshua was leading the nation of Israel to cross the Jordan River, I emphasized who it was that initiated who initiated the action to establish a memorial, a an accurate historical recording. Who initiated that? The scripture is clear. It wasn't Joshua's idea. God initiated that. God is the one who said, hey Joshua, I know you're doing your thing that I called you to to lead the nation of Israel. You know you're entering the promised land, but yo, pause for a second my man, pause for a second because this is a moment that needs to be documented accurately, guys. The idea that history must be properly recorded, the idea that history is proper recording, has enduring impact on the existing peoples at the time of the recordation, as well as subsequent generations. This is a divinely inspired idea. It's a divinely inspired idea. When we pause and reflect upon the impact of historical recordings, how we've learned from civilizations in times past and all of these things, the idea is not merely a humanistic musing, guys. It's a divine authored. Divinely authored idea. It's a divinely authored idea. This is why I cringe when I think about how broadly in our nation right now, the discipline of instruction concerning history has largely, Largely been ceded to people who are hostile to the Lord. It's been largely ceded to people who are hostile to the truth. It's been largely ceded to people who have a vested interest in concealing God's evidence throughout history. In our own nation and the nations around the world, we find it in things like how there's been, I would argue, a demonically inspired communication, that slavery is something that's unique to the United States of America and how really foolish it is for anybody would have a Bible to even think that. One of the defining things in the scripture is an entire book that's titled Exit. Exit from what you would say, Egyptian slavery. This is not meant in any way to, minimize the objective horror that the transatlantic slave trade was. But honestly, we should never be able to have a conversation about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade without discussing, from whom the transatlantic slave traders learned the trade from. it's also very similar. And this is one of the things that I have a great problem with with the Republican Party. Why? When people discuss the Republican Party, we'll start by describing it as the party of Lincoln. And we'll talk about how the Republican Party was created to abolish slavery in the United States of America, because that is an historical fact, by the way. But we'll kind of zoom right past the 1860s, and you show up Ronald Reagan. Well, what happened in the intervening years? What happened between the party of Lincoln's formation and the years when Ronald Reagan became the popular president he became? What happened in those years? Do we know anything about Lilly Blanco Republicanism? Do we know anything about that? No, most people don't. Why don't we? It's one of the reasons why we have the struggles that we have, that we don't have a, foundational understanding that, you know, proverbially spoken black history is American history. Do we know about Carter G. Woodson and Negro History Week and the purpose of it and the role it was meant to play and how it contributed to. We don't know a lot of these things, man. The idea for accurate recording of history was God's idea, and the Lord explained why. Joshua, I'm telling you to do this for this reason, because I want you to establish a memorial that will provoke historical inquiry. I need you to erect this because I need you. I'm instructing you to erect this memorial because I want to direct your progeny toward an historical communication, an accurate communication of history. Because I have said, and I will continue to say, that accurate historical recordings ultimately direct us, point us to theological truths. Erect this, Joshua, so that when your children pass it, they'll ask, now what does this mean? Now, what does this mean, guys? This scripture also reveals that God desires to have a generational interest in accurate history. We have succumbed in our nation to a nefarious stratagem that has been promulgated for the express purpose of subversion. Because when we look at history accurately, even as it applies to our nation, it would provoke us to bask in awe at the fact that God uses crooked sticks to paint straight lines. The scripture told us my people suffer from that lack of knowledge. That is true. This next segment, we're going to talk about it. What truly did the founders understand? The general welfare clause. To me.
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Next weekend we will be in Simsborough, Louisiana for a family focused weekend
Abraham Hamilton III Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here, man. Next weekend we will be in Simsborough, Louisiana at Simsborough First Baptist Church for the family focused weekend. For those who are watching the show, you should probably see on the screen right now the, events page where you have to go to register. again, the registration is not for any type of pay or anything. The event is free of charge. But the church would like to know who's all coming so they can prepare for your arrival because they will have food for attendees there. You'll also see on the events page, the itinerary for the weekend. it's going to be an amazing time there. I am so looking forward to this. I've been praying, in anticipation of this event and, this is going to be a great time as we worship the Lord together and be sharpened to be effective in this time and place where God has planted us. If you're in the area or willing to come to the area, I would love to meet you. That is fbcsimsborough.org is the website where you need to go to register. We'll be at Simsborough First Baptist Church, February 20th through the 22nd. There are, provisions being made, for caring for children during the event. contact the church for more information on that point. but I look forward to seeing you there.
Why isn't it mandatory for American children to understand the American Constitution
All right, continuing the conversation we were having previously about history and understanding history, I said a while back on the show, I plan to dig a bit deeper into this. And that is what comes to your mind immediately when you hear, well, the federal government is to provide for the general welfare of the nation. What immediately comes to your mind, most people, when you say general welfare, what comes to your mind is what? Welfare programs. Right. Entitlement, spending. Right. That's what comes to most people's minds. Now I just. Man, this is kind of like a public service announcement, a reminder that the US Constitution, when it was drafted, it was not meant to be viewed as, as this, lofty, unapproachable document. It was written with the express purposes, to allow dads and moms to discuss and share and read and understand the Constitution. The US Constitution around their kitchen tables, around their, around their dinner tables. Now, because we are a constitutional republic in terms of our governmental form with democratic features. A constitutional republic with democratic features. You've heard me say on the show numerous times that Article 4 of the US Constitution guarantees to every American citizen a republican form of government. That's what's in the Constitution. Because we have a Constitution that communicates that it is, that our government is of the people, by the people, for the people. The very first words of our Constitution says we the people. Don't you think it's important for the people to one read the Constitution, the US Constitution. Don't you likewise think it is important for the American people to understand the Constitution, the US Constitution? Wouldn't you think that? I have a question then. With all of our, mandatory subjects in school, why isn't constitutional law required before people graduate from high school? Have you ever thought about that? I mean, considering the importance of the document to the lives of the American citizens, have you considered why that's not a requirement? How about this? Why isn't the US Constitution a general education requirement in America's colleges and universities? I'm not talking about, understanding litigation strategies. I'm not talking about reading case law, reading jurisprudence. I am talking about reading the articles of the US Constitution, reading the debates surrounding the US Constitution, reading Madison James Madison's notes concerning what transpired at the Philadelphia Convention. I'm talking about reading things like the Federalist Papers Why aren't these things more foundational requirements? Why isn't the Declaration of Independence, the assigning committee, the initial draft of the declaration and then the final draft of it? Why aren't these things mandatory reading and study if we're going to have a citizenry? you turn 18, you become eligible to vote. Don't you think it would be important for those who are eligible to vote at 18 years old to understand how we arrived at the voting franchise? Do you think that's important? Do you think it's important to understand how, things like the Magna Carta contributed and influenced. I'm asking these questions in view of what we just read in the first segment from Joshua, Chapter four, and hopefully you can see that. I mean, I'm telling you. You want to talk about, a galling consideration with all of the subject that we make mandatory. Why isn't it mandatory for American children to understand the American Constitution? Why? Oh, they can learn that later when, when, you know, I'll just say this is a little, little. A little birdie told me that the sheriff on premium coming up for the spring share a thon is going to be pocket constitutions. When I show people the sides of the Constitution how brief it is, people are shocked. That's it. That's how short. Yes. And guys, I hope y' all hear my heart. I'm not up here like trying to be on some soapbox perch and asserting, my supremacy and denigrating those who have experienced what I have. What I'm hoping that you will see from this is that we've been played, man. Fam, we have been played. How can we, year after year, admit additional 18 year olds to the voting electorate? And their 18 year olds have not even read one article of the Constitution. Is that not a part of preparedness for adulthood? The intentional dumbing down and revisionism of our history with affirmative misrepresentations combined with strategically positioned omissions have been discharged for the purpose of, of subversion. The general welfare clause is just one of them. I'm going to read the preamble and I'll just tell you. The preamble is where the general welfare clause is employed. It's also articulated in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. But this is what the Preamble says. We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity to ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The introductory paragraph to our Constitution specifies six purposes for which the Constitution was created. I've explained to you before that the US Constitution was created as the implementation vehicle for the vision articulated in the Declaration of Independence. We are approaching the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. It's largely described as America 250 because the US was forged from the Declaration. It was the declared removal of our nation from being a British colonial pursuit after the Declaration was articulated in 1776. About a decade and a year later, 11 years later, you have the production of the US Constitution subsequent to that it's ratification. I'm going through this man because we have to understand this. When you have those six purposes articulated in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare. The context of the statement itself itself gives you an idea as to what is meant by the term. Notice that the reference to the general welfare immediately follows provide for the common defense. Why am I pointing that out? Guys? I'm pointing it out. Because the term general welfare was intended in originally to be to convey a limiting principle, to convey a limit to what the federal government would do. Not, kick the barn door wide open and spend on anything you want. And here's the not so secret, secret, guys, this is why I'm telling you. Revisionism by affirmative misrepresentations or by intentional omissions. Revisionism is a tool of subversion. Because most Americans, when they hear general welfare today, they think, yeah, see, that's why the US Government spends like a drunken sailor when the exact opposite is true. And it was true and commonly understood for well over 100 years. The reference to the federal government's existence to quote, promote the general welfare was a limiting principle. How so, Abe? I'm glad you asked. The founders understood and even with the debates between Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, subsequently, James Monroe, the debates all surrounded the idea that the federal government's constitutional investment in the quote, promotion of the general welfare limits the federal government to acting on only where it is generally applicable to the nation as a whole, as opposed to advancing or promoting special interest. Guys, that was the understanding in the United States of America from its founding through over 100 years. It was not really until. Stop me if you heard this before the Progressive Era where certain lowlights took place. You know, like the passage of the Federal Reserve Act 1913, the creation of the IRS with the capacity to Directly tax the income of American citizens. Progressive era. Amending the Constitution to change the composition of the US Senate away from being elected by state legislatures to being a popular vote initiative. Progressive era. Isn't it interesting that following the Federal Reserve act's passage in 1913, one of the very next things that happens is, oh yeah, that's right, we World War I, 1914.
Hamilton: The general welfare clause limited the federal government
Isn't that interesting, guys? It was widely and broadly understood that the general welfare clause limited the federal government. It put constraints on the federal government away from acting unless the action was broadly applicable to the nation and. Excuse me, I dropped my glass. To a nation, to the nation as a whole. The salient point of the general welfare articulation in the preamble and in Article 1, Section 8, when you get to that in a moment, the understood meaning and the salient point of its meaning was that its implication was a negative constraint. It was not an affirmative endorsement. Yes, spend all that, Spend on that, spend. No, it was a constraint. It was, oh no, no, no. The federal government doesn't act unless its action is generally applicable, meaning to everyone, to the nation as a whole. And when I say everyone, I don't mean to everyone as to each individual, I mean to the nation as a whole. You know, things like national borders, you see, Those were general welfare promotion, ideal ideas and concepts. As it was understood at the founding era. The term general. The term general means applicable to the whole rather than particular parts of or special interests. Now, now just pause for a moment and think about this. So under the founder's understanding of general welfare, do you think it would include massive entitlement spending? I think the answer is pretty obvious. And that answer is no. But because the American people have not understood this, because this has not been taught broadly and widely, we have the reverse that's happened. We now have a nation when things transpire. The initial question is, what is the federal government going to do? What is the federal government going to do? What is the federal government going to do? And that was never how the founders intended for our nation to function. We used to be a people when things happened. Our initial response is what are we going to do? The only time the federal government would act would be in the promotion of the general welfare.
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Abraham Hamilton III: Constitutional illiteracy has grave consequences on national debt
Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here, guys. Very simple textual reading would help us to get to this understanding. When you see in the preamble that the promotion of the general welfare follows the expression to provide for the common defense and to promote the general welfare. These are both terms, concepts that convey immediately broad application to the nation as a whole. Then when you go into examine congressional action immediately following the ratification of the US Constitution, you will see over and over and over for over the first 100 years in our nation's history when considerations and appropriations would come up. And I'm going to turn now to the spending clause. That's in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. constitution. And it says the Congress shall have power to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. Notice the connection once again. Common defense, general welfare, common defense, general welfare. These were meant to be provisions employed, or those provisions would only be employed when they were addressing the nation as a whole, not particularized interests. Take this for example. The first Congress refused to make a loan to a glass manufacturer after several members expressed a view that such an appropriation would be unconstitutional. M the fourth Congress did not believe it had the power to provide relief to the citizens of Savannah, Georgia after a devastating fire destroyed the entire city. Think the Congress. The fourth Congress didn't care about Savannah, Georgia. Of course they did. But they recognized that the US Constitution did not allow it to act to spend federal money except in the promotion of of the corporate general welfare. The debates in Congress did not reflect whether Congress thought such appropriations unconstitutional because they did not further other enumerated powers, as James Madison would say, or because they were local rather than of national benefit. But they reflect a rejection of the broad interpretation of the spending power. A broad interpretation of the spending power is what they objected to. I would m encourage you to research the Cumberland Road issue in Ohio. I'm Sorry, The Cumberland gap road issue in Ohio, that was viewed as something that benefited the nation as a whole. But appropriations for other local projects, such as public education and local roads and canals, the general benefit of which was less direct. You heard me right. Less direct. They were viewed as unconstitutional in the early 1800s. Why don't we know more about these debates? Why don't we know more about these conversations? Because revisionism is a tool that's employed for subversive purposes. It's a tool of subversion. If you look at congressional appropriations in the first 50 to 100 years of our nation, the picture becomes extremely clear as to what the founders and then subsequent American generations viewed as general welfare. But here we are now in our nation to where the interest on our national debt. Equals what we spend, huh? For the common defense, for defense spending, guys, the constitutional illiteracy has grave consequences. And I know some of you are thinking like, well, hey, look how far down the road we are. How can we reverse it? The first step in reversing it, guys, is having a populace that knows it needs to be reversed. And not only a general idea that, man, the national debt is bad for us as a nation, but being able to identify why it's bad and exactly where we got off the rails. You know, it's one thing for a train to get off its tracks. It's another thing to identify how, when, and why the train got off the tracks. And I will continue to remind you, just because something has been done a certain way for a certain amount of time doesn't mean that we should accept that as what should be normal. This is why in the founding era, the federal government was not involved in education. Not because the founding era, the founders didn't value education. It's actually the exact opposite. I could show you scores of writing that showed how during the founding era and immediate generations of America, that one of the things that was so remarkable of our nation when compared to other nation was. Was how widespread literacy was. Other commentators couldn't. Couldn't. Were overwhelmed in considering, man, the American people. Everybody reads, guys. That wasn't the case in other countries. But we've been dumbed down, man. We've been dumbed down. We've been dumbed down. Why can't high schoolers read the Federalist Papers? M. Why? Why aren't Madison's notes on the Constitution required reading? Because they want a populist. When I say they, I'm talking about the regressive social engineers who are invested in the fundamental transformation of the United States. Of America into something else. The same people that will try to benignly say it's not a big deal in one of the biggest events on America's annual calendar, that the central entertainment feature spoke literally 99% no English. That's just wild, man. That's just wild. It's just wild. And if you. You the one that's the problem. If you think that American public celebration should be done in English, you know, the language commonly spoken by American citizens, then you're the problem. You're the problem. Just like if 83% of the American people say, you know what? You should need to show a photo ID to register to vote and to vote, and you say, yeah, I agree with that. No, no, no, you're the problem. That's Jim Crow 2.0. Do y' all see the consistency with this insanity? General welfare was never understood to be the green light for overwhelming entitlement spending on social programs in America. Never, guys. Never, Never. Go back and look at what. When the federal income tax was instituted, how did it start? You'll see a commonly spouted refrain from recent history. You realize it was a 1% tax in the beginning. It was a soak the rich tax. How'd that work out now? How'd that work out? Oh, yeah, yeah. Now, every American. Man, we've been had, we've been played. And the ruse and the deception has been promulgated through revisionism, largely affirmative misrepresentations combined with intentional, strategically employed omissions. People say, to general welfare, and they decontextualize the phrasing. They strip it from the context of the actual verbiage in the US Constitution itself, and they strip it from the context as the verbiage was understood when the document was written and for the next 100 years thereafter. They didn't see the general welfare clause in the US Constitution, the Preamble, and then subsequently in Article 1, Section 8, as the Greene light to spend your way into oblivion. It actually was understood, rightly, as constraining. Congress cannot make appropriations unless those appropriations apply to the nation as a whole. No picking and choosing, no onesy twosies.
Any powers that have not been expressly delegated to the federal government are reserved
This is not a callous disdain for the poor. It's simply a proper balancing of order. It's not a question of if. It's a question of who. That's all. Any powers that have not been expressly Ever heard this language expressly enumerated within this constitution and delegated to the federal government within this document, it is then expressly reserved to the states and to the people. At best guys, non general welfare should be a, should be provided for by those closest to the ones who are in need of help. Because the further you get away from the problem, the easier it is to be irresponsible. The easier it is for waste and fraud and abuse to transpire. The further you remove from the people, the easier it is to happen. So the federal taxpayers in the 21st century end up bankrolling all kinds of shenanigans. USAID. And it's heartbreaking to know that this has happened. Share this information and share this show with your friends and family, families and loved ones. Trust but verify. Do the, do the work yourself. Read it yourself. Read Madison's notes. Thank God we have that preserved. We have Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention. Read the Federalist Papers. See the arguments that were made between the Federalists and anti Federalists. A lot of the arguments and warnings that the anti Federalists made sure look kind of prophetic right about now. Read the debates. Read the historical construction. One of the major ways you know that the founders never intended for the federal government to become this large, all encompassing behemoth is because its means for revenue generation were intentionally kept minimal. But most Americans say they don't understand that. And then when you have a massive influx of people who come from countries to where they're pretty Marxist in their orientations, you have massive amounts of people from south, Central and South America and they come from nations to where government involvement in all things, in all areas of life is kind of normalized. What do you think they expect when they come here? That's what they expect. And if they have that expectation, but that expectation is not confronted. And let me be clear about something. we need to continue vigorously detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. And we really do legal immigrants, a disservice when they come to the United States of America and they are deprived from learning. What were the foundational tracks that led to the American train to gain the esteem that she gained over time. Beyond the concerns about immigrants, legal immigrants, we deny our offspring a, heritage that they should be afforded when we participate either by affirmative complicity or by ignorance and, or negligence. And we deprive them of learning. And you do realize, learning things like you do realize, you know, the promotion of the general welfare was meant to limit federal appropriations. Congress can only appropriate, when they are doing so, to promote what's best for the nation as a whole. The corporate whole, the national whole, not special interests, not particular pet projects. But we've turned our nation on her head. And it's not surprising, because largely in our nation, Scripture has been rejected and truth has fallen in the streets. But we can start building just like Nehemiah is leading the construction. The reconstruction of the wall by laying one brick at a time. The general welfare clauses were never meant to be green lights for runaway spending. The general welfare clauses were meant as constraints upon Congress's ability to appropriate. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
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Abraham Hamilton III Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite, delivering people out of the bondage of mainstream media and the philosophies of this world. God has called you and me to be his ambassadors even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment. And now the Hamilton Corner. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. My name is Abraham Hamilton, the third host of the program, joined by producer extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated, the real J. Mac. That's Mr. Jeff McIntosh, ladies and gentlemen, and we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part time jobs with you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I, I must remind you to do so with intentionality. Understanding the primacy that God places on family, recognizing the command in the Great Commission is to make disciples. A central feature of disciple making is the cultivation of the mind.
Revisionism is a product of affirmatively rewriting historical narratives
One of the things we're going to be getting into this, in this segment straight away, that's included in the cultivation of the mind is conveying history. An accurate rendering of history. The very word itself, includes within it why it's important for history to be conveyed accurately because it is truly his story. And revisionism. And revisionism is a product of affirmatively rewriting historical narratives or intentionally omitting portions of history to serve one's purpose. Revisionism is a tool of subversion. We are living in a country and I was just looking at founding era educational materials, state level things, the NewSong England primer and when you consider the quality of offerings in our nation's history in terms of the cultivation of the mind, which he often referred to as education. And you see where we are now, honestly it brought me to tears. It brought me to tears because we have such a Darwinian hubris because of technological innovations that we've enjoyed to where we regard historical figures as being less than we are currently. But when you look at books, 5, 6 and 7 year olds used to read much of the stuff that five, six and seven year olds used to read in the 1700s and college students can't read today. And seeing how that has been, the dumbing down of our nation has been done so effectively, it's sad it's sad. It's not the end of the story. You know, some of you may remember the show we did last Friday with Stephen McDowell. it's amazing what God can do when the people turn to him, but we must turn to him. So as you're making your transition to your full time jobs, I really want to challenge you to think about this differently. To think about what you get to do on a daily basis as another day. You have another day to put a brick on the wall, so to speak. Kind of like Nehemiah, a brick on the wall of reconstruction, of reconstructing, biblical fidelity. You have an opportunity to lay another brick on the wall of reconstructing.
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Abraham Hamilton III family in the way of Christ, or constructing, maybe not even reconstructing if you have younger children, you are building a first instance. So much has been lost and intentionally forfeited. That's why we continue to see, frankly, ludicrous, provocative yet effective rhetorical devices employed in our society. Like Chuck Schumer talking about voter identification requirements being Jim Crow 2.0. I mean, that's a claim that is objectively false. So because it's objectively false, you would think, well, certainly people will see that and recognize, and, and if people say objectively false things in the public intentionally, should that eliminate any credibility they might have? But you see the opposite happen because our society has been deteriorated to such a degree. And, and the fact is, has been deteriorated intent intentionally to the degree that it has been to make it easier to manipulate people. Just like common sense and logic shows you, if you refuse to require people to identify themselves when they're casting a vote, it is because you want to make it as easy as possible for people to cheat. When subversive efforts are employed to literally say, our nation is something other than what she is. And I, and I, and I believe we need to be honest. We have to be honest. That's the only way we can move forward. But we have to identify revisionism as a subversive tactic.
We should never discuss the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade without discussing slavery
To the word of God we go Joshua, chapter four. Joshua, chapter four, verses one through seven. We've talked about this passage of Scripture before, but I want to reiterate it again as it's germane to our conversation today. Joshua, chapter four. This is what the Scripture says in verse one. Now, when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, this is when Joshua is leading the Israelites into the promised land. All right? Now, when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, the Lord spoke to Joshua saying, take for yourselves 12 men from the people, one man from each tribe and command them saying, take up for yourselves 12 stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests feet are standing firm and carry them over with you and lay them down in the lodging place where you will lodge tonight. So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe. And Joshua said to them, cross again to the ark of the Lord your God in the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder according to the number of tribes of the sons of Israel. Let this be a sign among you so that when your children ask later saying, what do these stones mean to you? Then you shall say to them, because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the covenant of the Lord when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever. Now as you heard, as I read, I emphasized that as Joshua was leading the nation of Israel to cross the Jordan River, I emphasized who it was that initiated who initiated the action to establish a memorial, a an accurate historical recording. Who initiated that? The scripture is clear. It wasn't Joshua's idea. God initiated that. God is the one who said, hey Joshua, I know you're doing your thing that I called you to to lead the nation of Israel. You know you're entering the promised land, but yo, pause for a second my man, pause for a second because this is a moment that needs to be documented accurately, guys. The idea that history must be properly recorded, the idea that history is proper recording, has enduring impact on the existing peoples at the time of the recordation, as well as subsequent generations. This is a divinely inspired idea. It's a divinely inspired idea. When we pause and reflect upon the impact of historical recordings, how we've learned from civilizations in times past and all of these things, the idea is not merely a humanistic musing, guys. It's a divine authored. Divinely authored idea. It's a divinely authored idea. This is why I cringe when I think about how broadly in our nation right now, the discipline of instruction concerning history has largely, Largely been ceded to people who are hostile to the Lord. It's been largely ceded to people who are hostile to the truth. It's been largely ceded to people who have a vested interest in concealing God's evidence throughout history. In our own nation and the nations around the world, we find it in things like how there's been, I would argue, a demonically inspired communication, that slavery is something that's unique to the United States of America and how really foolish it is for anybody would have a Bible to even think that. One of the defining things in the scripture is an entire book that's titled Exit. Exit from what you would say, Egyptian slavery. This is not meant in any way to, minimize the objective horror that the transatlantic slave trade was. But honestly, we should never be able to have a conversation about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade without discussing, from whom the transatlantic slave traders learned the trade from. it's also very similar. And this is one of the things that I have a great problem with with the Republican Party. Why? When people discuss the Republican Party, we'll start by describing it as the party of Lincoln. And we'll talk about how the Republican Party was created to abolish slavery in the United States of America, because that is an historical fact, by the way. But we'll kind of zoom right past the 1860s, and you show up Ronald Reagan. Well, what happened in the intervening years? What happened between the party of Lincoln's formation and the years when Ronald Reagan became the popular president he became? What happened in those years? Do we know anything about Lilly Blanco Republicanism? Do we know anything about that? No, most people don't. Why don't we? It's one of the reasons why we have the struggles that we have, that we don't have a, foundational understanding that, you know, proverbially spoken black history is American history. Do we know about Carter G. Woodson and Negro History Week and the purpose of it and the role it was meant to play and how it contributed to. We don't know a lot of these things, man. The idea for accurate recording of history was God's idea, and the Lord explained why. Joshua, I'm telling you to do this for this reason, because I want you to establish a memorial that will provoke historical inquiry. I need you to erect this because I need you. I'm instructing you to erect this memorial because I want to direct your progeny toward an historical communication, an accurate communication of history. Because I have said, and I will continue to say, that accurate historical recordings ultimately direct us, point us to theological truths. Erect this, Joshua, so that when your children pass it, they'll ask, now what does this mean? Now, what does this mean, guys? This scripture also reveals that God desires to have a generational interest in accurate history. We have succumbed in our nation to a nefarious stratagem that has been promulgated for the express purpose of subversion. Because when we look at history accurately, even as it applies to our nation, it would provoke us to bask in awe at the fact that God uses crooked sticks to paint straight lines. The scripture told us my people suffer from that lack of knowledge. That is true. This next segment, we're going to talk about it. What truly did the founders understand? The general welfare clause. To me.
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Next weekend we will be in Simsborough, Louisiana for a family focused weekend
Abraham Hamilton III Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here, man. Next weekend we will be in Simsborough, Louisiana at Simsborough First Baptist Church for the family focused weekend. For those who are watching the show, you should probably see on the screen right now the, events page where you have to go to register. again, the registration is not for any type of pay or anything. The event is free of charge. But the church would like to know who's all coming so they can prepare for your arrival because they will have food for attendees there. You'll also see on the events page, the itinerary for the weekend. it's going to be an amazing time there. I am so looking forward to this. I've been praying, in anticipation of this event and, this is going to be a great time as we worship the Lord together and be sharpened to be effective in this time and place where God has planted us. If you're in the area or willing to come to the area, I would love to meet you. That is fbcsimsborough.org is the website where you need to go to register. We'll be at Simsborough First Baptist Church, February 20th through the 22nd. There are, provisions being made, for caring for children during the event. contact the church for more information on that point. but I look forward to seeing you there.
Why isn't it mandatory for American children to understand the American Constitution
All right, continuing the conversation we were having previously about history and understanding history, I said a while back on the show, I plan to dig a bit deeper into this. And that is what comes to your mind immediately when you hear, well, the federal government is to provide for the general welfare of the nation. What immediately comes to your mind, most people, when you say general welfare, what comes to your mind is what? Welfare programs. Right. Entitlement, spending. Right. That's what comes to most people's minds. Now I just. Man, this is kind of like a public service announcement, a reminder that the US Constitution, when it was drafted, it was not meant to be viewed as, as this, lofty, unapproachable document. It was written with the express purposes, to allow dads and moms to discuss and share and read and understand the Constitution. The US Constitution around their kitchen tables, around their, around their dinner tables. Now, because we are a constitutional republic in terms of our governmental form with democratic features. A constitutional republic with democratic features. You've heard me say on the show numerous times that Article 4 of the US Constitution guarantees to every American citizen a republican form of government. That's what's in the Constitution. Because we have a Constitution that communicates that it is, that our government is of the people, by the people, for the people. The very first words of our Constitution says we the people. Don't you think it's important for the people to one read the Constitution, the US Constitution. Don't you likewise think it is important for the American people to understand the Constitution, the US Constitution? Wouldn't you think that? I have a question then. With all of our, mandatory subjects in school, why isn't constitutional law required before people graduate from high school? Have you ever thought about that? I mean, considering the importance of the document to the lives of the American citizens, have you considered why that's not a requirement? How about this? Why isn't the US Constitution a general education requirement in America's colleges and universities? I'm not talking about, understanding litigation strategies. I'm not talking about reading case law, reading jurisprudence. I am talking about reading the articles of the US Constitution, reading the debates surrounding the US Constitution, reading Madison James Madison's notes concerning what transpired at the Philadelphia Convention. I'm talking about reading things like the Federalist Papers Why aren't these things more foundational requirements? Why isn't the Declaration of Independence, the assigning committee, the initial draft of the declaration and then the final draft of it? Why aren't these things mandatory reading and study if we're going to have a citizenry? you turn 18, you become eligible to vote. Don't you think it would be important for those who are eligible to vote at 18 years old to understand how we arrived at the voting franchise? Do you think that's important? Do you think it's important to understand how, things like the Magna Carta contributed and influenced. I'm asking these questions in view of what we just read in the first segment from Joshua, Chapter four, and hopefully you can see that. I mean, I'm telling you. You want to talk about, a galling consideration with all of the subject that we make mandatory. Why isn't it mandatory for American children to understand the American Constitution? Why? Oh, they can learn that later when, when, you know, I'll just say this is a little, little. A little birdie told me that the sheriff on premium coming up for the spring share a thon is going to be pocket constitutions. When I show people the sides of the Constitution how brief it is, people are shocked. That's it. That's how short. Yes. And guys, I hope y' all hear my heart. I'm not up here like trying to be on some soapbox perch and asserting, my supremacy and denigrating those who have experienced what I have. What I'm hoping that you will see from this is that we've been played, man. Fam, we have been played. How can we, year after year, admit additional 18 year olds to the voting electorate? And their 18 year olds have not even read one article of the Constitution. Is that not a part of preparedness for adulthood? The intentional dumbing down and revisionism of our history with affirmative misrepresentations combined with strategically positioned omissions have been discharged for the purpose of, of subversion. The general welfare clause is just one of them. I'm going to read the preamble and I'll just tell you. The preamble is where the general welfare clause is employed. It's also articulated in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. But this is what the Preamble says. We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity to ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The introductory paragraph to our Constitution specifies six purposes for which the Constitution was created. I've explained to you before that the US Constitution was created as the implementation vehicle for the vision articulated in the Declaration of Independence. We are approaching the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. It's largely described as America 250 because the US was forged from the Declaration. It was the declared removal of our nation from being a British colonial pursuit after the Declaration was articulated in 1776. About a decade and a year later, 11 years later, you have the production of the US Constitution subsequent to that it's ratification. I'm going through this man because we have to understand this. When you have those six purposes articulated in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare. The context of the statement itself itself gives you an idea as to what is meant by the term. Notice that the reference to the general welfare immediately follows provide for the common defense. Why am I pointing that out? Guys? I'm pointing it out. Because the term general welfare was intended in originally to be to convey a limiting principle, to convey a limit to what the federal government would do. Not, kick the barn door wide open and spend on anything you want. And here's the not so secret, secret, guys, this is why I'm telling you. Revisionism by affirmative misrepresentations or by intentional omissions. Revisionism is a tool of subversion. Because most Americans, when they hear general welfare today, they think, yeah, see, that's why the US Government spends like a drunken sailor when the exact opposite is true. And it was true and commonly understood for well over 100 years. The reference to the federal government's existence to quote, promote the general welfare was a limiting principle. How so, Abe? I'm glad you asked. The founders understood and even with the debates between Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, subsequently, James Monroe, the debates all surrounded the idea that the federal government's constitutional investment in the quote, promotion of the general welfare limits the federal government to acting on only where it is generally applicable to the nation as a whole, as opposed to advancing or promoting special interest. Guys, that was the understanding in the United States of America from its founding through over 100 years. It was not really until. Stop me if you heard this before the Progressive Era where certain lowlights took place. You know, like the passage of the Federal Reserve Act 1913, the creation of the IRS with the capacity to Directly tax the income of American citizens. Progressive era. Amending the Constitution to change the composition of the US Senate away from being elected by state legislatures to being a popular vote initiative. Progressive era. Isn't it interesting that following the Federal Reserve act's passage in 1913, one of the very next things that happens is, oh yeah, that's right, we World War I, 1914.
Hamilton: The general welfare clause limited the federal government
Isn't that interesting, guys? It was widely and broadly understood that the general welfare clause limited the federal government. It put constraints on the federal government away from acting unless the action was broadly applicable to the nation and. Excuse me, I dropped my glass. To a nation, to the nation as a whole. The salient point of the general welfare articulation in the preamble and in Article 1, Section 8, when you get to that in a moment, the understood meaning and the salient point of its meaning was that its implication was a negative constraint. It was not an affirmative endorsement. Yes, spend all that, Spend on that, spend. No, it was a constraint. It was, oh no, no, no. The federal government doesn't act unless its action is generally applicable, meaning to everyone, to the nation as a whole. And when I say everyone, I don't mean to everyone as to each individual, I mean to the nation as a whole. You know, things like national borders, you see, Those were general welfare promotion, ideal ideas and concepts. As it was understood at the founding era. The term general. The term general means applicable to the whole rather than particular parts of or special interests. Now, now just pause for a moment and think about this. So under the founder's understanding of general welfare, do you think it would include massive entitlement spending? I think the answer is pretty obvious. And that answer is no. But because the American people have not understood this, because this has not been taught broadly and widely, we have the reverse that's happened. We now have a nation when things transpire. The initial question is, what is the federal government going to do? What is the federal government going to do? What is the federal government going to do? And that was never how the founders intended for our nation to function. We used to be a people when things happened. Our initial response is what are we going to do? The only time the federal government would act would be in the promotion of the general welfare.
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Abraham Hamilton III: Constitutional illiteracy has grave consequences on national debt
Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here, guys. Very simple textual reading would help us to get to this understanding. When you see in the preamble that the promotion of the general welfare follows the expression to provide for the common defense and to promote the general welfare. These are both terms, concepts that convey immediately broad application to the nation as a whole. Then when you go into examine congressional action immediately following the ratification of the US Constitution, you will see over and over and over for over the first 100 years in our nation's history when considerations and appropriations would come up. And I'm going to turn now to the spending clause. That's in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. constitution. And it says the Congress shall have power to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. Notice the connection once again. Common defense, general welfare, common defense, general welfare. These were meant to be provisions employed, or those provisions would only be employed when they were addressing the nation as a whole, not particularized interests. Take this for example. The first Congress refused to make a loan to a glass manufacturer after several members expressed a view that such an appropriation would be unconstitutional. M the fourth Congress did not believe it had the power to provide relief to the citizens of Savannah, Georgia after a devastating fire destroyed the entire city. Think the Congress. The fourth Congress didn't care about Savannah, Georgia. Of course they did. But they recognized that the US Constitution did not allow it to act to spend federal money except in the promotion of of the corporate general welfare. The debates in Congress did not reflect whether Congress thought such appropriations unconstitutional because they did not further other enumerated powers, as James Madison would say, or because they were local rather than of national benefit. But they reflect a rejection of the broad interpretation of the spending power. A broad interpretation of the spending power is what they objected to. I would m encourage you to research the Cumberland Road issue in Ohio. I'm Sorry, The Cumberland gap road issue in Ohio, that was viewed as something that benefited the nation as a whole. But appropriations for other local projects, such as public education and local roads and canals, the general benefit of which was less direct. You heard me right. Less direct. They were viewed as unconstitutional in the early 1800s. Why don't we know more about these debates? Why don't we know more about these conversations? Because revisionism is a tool that's employed for subversive purposes. It's a tool of subversion. If you look at congressional appropriations in the first 50 to 100 years of our nation, the picture becomes extremely clear as to what the founders and then subsequent American generations viewed as general welfare. But here we are now in our nation to where the interest on our national debt. Equals what we spend, huh? For the common defense, for defense spending, guys, the constitutional illiteracy has grave consequences. And I know some of you are thinking like, well, hey, look how far down the road we are. How can we reverse it? The first step in reversing it, guys, is having a populace that knows it needs to be reversed. And not only a general idea that, man, the national debt is bad for us as a nation, but being able to identify why it's bad and exactly where we got off the rails. You know, it's one thing for a train to get off its tracks. It's another thing to identify how, when, and why the train got off the tracks. And I will continue to remind you, just because something has been done a certain way for a certain amount of time doesn't mean that we should accept that as what should be normal. This is why in the founding era, the federal government was not involved in education. Not because the founding era, the founders didn't value education. It's actually the exact opposite. I could show you scores of writing that showed how during the founding era and immediate generations of America, that one of the things that was so remarkable of our nation when compared to other nation was. Was how widespread literacy was. Other commentators couldn't. Couldn't. Were overwhelmed in considering, man, the American people. Everybody reads, guys. That wasn't the case in other countries. But we've been dumbed down, man. We've been dumbed down. We've been dumbed down. Why can't high schoolers read the Federalist Papers? M. Why? Why aren't Madison's notes on the Constitution required reading? Because they want a populist. When I say they, I'm talking about the regressive social engineers who are invested in the fundamental transformation of the United States. Of America into something else. The same people that will try to benignly say it's not a big deal in one of the biggest events on America's annual calendar, that the central entertainment feature spoke literally 99% no English. That's just wild, man. That's just wild. It's just wild. And if you. You the one that's the problem. If you think that American public celebration should be done in English, you know, the language commonly spoken by American citizens, then you're the problem. You're the problem. Just like if 83% of the American people say, you know what? You should need to show a photo ID to register to vote and to vote, and you say, yeah, I agree with that. No, no, no, you're the problem. That's Jim Crow 2.0. Do y' all see the consistency with this insanity? General welfare was never understood to be the green light for overwhelming entitlement spending on social programs in America. Never, guys. Never, Never. Go back and look at what. When the federal income tax was instituted, how did it start? You'll see a commonly spouted refrain from recent history. You realize it was a 1% tax in the beginning. It was a soak the rich tax. How'd that work out now? How'd that work out? Oh, yeah, yeah. Now, every American. Man, we've been had, we've been played. And the ruse and the deception has been promulgated through revisionism, largely affirmative misrepresentations combined with intentional, strategically employed omissions. People say, to general welfare, and they decontextualize the phrasing. They strip it from the context of the actual verbiage in the US Constitution itself, and they strip it from the context as the verbiage was understood when the document was written and for the next 100 years thereafter. They didn't see the general welfare clause in the US Constitution, the Preamble, and then subsequently in Article 1, Section 8, as the Greene light to spend your way into oblivion. It actually was understood, rightly, as constraining. Congress cannot make appropriations unless those appropriations apply to the nation as a whole. No picking and choosing, no onesy twosies.
Any powers that have not been expressly delegated to the federal government are reserved
This is not a callous disdain for the poor. It's simply a proper balancing of order. It's not a question of if. It's a question of who. That's all. Any powers that have not been expressly Ever heard this language expressly enumerated within this constitution and delegated to the federal government within this document, it is then expressly reserved to the states and to the people. At best guys, non general welfare should be a, should be provided for by those closest to the ones who are in need of help. Because the further you get away from the problem, the easier it is to be irresponsible. The easier it is for waste and fraud and abuse to transpire. The further you remove from the people, the easier it is to happen. So the federal taxpayers in the 21st century end up bankrolling all kinds of shenanigans. USAID. And it's heartbreaking to know that this has happened. Share this information and share this show with your friends and family, families and loved ones. Trust but verify. Do the, do the work yourself. Read it yourself. Read Madison's notes. Thank God we have that preserved. We have Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention. Read the Federalist Papers. See the arguments that were made between the Federalists and anti Federalists. A lot of the arguments and warnings that the anti Federalists made sure look kind of prophetic right about now. Read the debates. Read the historical construction. One of the major ways you know that the founders never intended for the federal government to become this large, all encompassing behemoth is because its means for revenue generation were intentionally kept minimal. But most Americans say they don't understand that. And then when you have a massive influx of people who come from countries to where they're pretty Marxist in their orientations, you have massive amounts of people from south, Central and South America and they come from nations to where government involvement in all things, in all areas of life is kind of normalized. What do you think they expect when they come here? That's what they expect. And if they have that expectation, but that expectation is not confronted. And let me be clear about something. we need to continue vigorously detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. And we really do legal immigrants, a disservice when they come to the United States of America and they are deprived from learning. What were the foundational tracks that led to the American train to gain the esteem that she gained over time. Beyond the concerns about immigrants, legal immigrants, we deny our offspring a, heritage that they should be afforded when we participate either by affirmative complicity or by ignorance and, or negligence. And we deprive them of learning. And you do realize, learning things like you do realize, you know, the promotion of the general welfare was meant to limit federal appropriations. Congress can only appropriate, when they are doing so, to promote what's best for the nation as a whole. The corporate whole, the national whole, not special interests, not particular pet projects. But we've turned our nation on her head. And it's not surprising, because largely in our nation, Scripture has been rejected and truth has fallen in the streets. But we can start building just like Nehemiah is leading the construction. The reconstruction of the wall by laying one brick at a time. The general welfare clauses were never meant to be green lights for runaway spending. The general welfare clauses were meant as constraints upon Congress's ability to appropriate. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
0:00 - 15:00. Joshua 4:1-7 (NASB95). Revisionism is a tool of subversion.
15:00 - 31:00. America’s dumbing down has been intentional. Ubiquitous constitutional illiteracy is a necessary ingredient for “fundamental transformation.”
31:00 - 48:00. “General welfare” was understood as a limiting principle imposed upon our federal government for well over a century.
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