To provide for the general welfare : a history of the federal spending power / Theodore Sky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sky, Theodore, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government spending policy--United States.

Government spending policy.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

442 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury : Associated University Presses, [2003]

Contents:

Part I. Framing and Ratification

1. The Framing of the General Welfare Clause 33

2. Ratification and the General Welfare Clause 55

Part II. The Framing of the First Precedents

3. The Washington Administration 79

4. Hamilton's Interpretation

Washington's Legacy 93

Part III. The Virginia Presidents and the General Welfare Clause: The Quest for a Constitutional Amendment

5. Jefferson's Dilemma 111

6. Madison's Precept 130

7. Monroe's Turn 144

Part IV. John Quincy Adams and the Jacksonians: A Clash of Visions

8. John Quincy Adams's "Spirit of Improvement" 167

9. Internal Improvements in the Age of Jackson 198

10. Madison's Testament, Story's Commentary, and the Postulates of the Antebellum Presidents 212

Part V. Lincoln's Role

11. Lincoln's General Welfare Clause 243

12. Lincoln's General Welfare Legacy 262

Part VI. Reconstruction, Realignment, Revolution, Resolution

13. Reconstruction, T. R., and Wilson's Realignment 283

14. The New Deal and Judicial Resolution 304

Part VII. Modern Exercise

15. Truman to Ford

Toward Consensus 327

16. Carter to Clinton

Accommodating Budget and National Investment Imperatives 342

Part VIII. Constitutionalism and National Progress: The General Welfare Clause Contribution

17. The Spending Power, the Constitutional Amendment, and the Evolving American Presidency 357

18. "Perseverance" 371

Appendix The Constitution, Article I, Section 8 381.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-429) and index.

ISBN:

0874137934

OCLC:

51558901