To Provide For The General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611491197)

To Provide for the General Welfare traces the course of the constitutional controversy over the spending power and the role of that power in driving an expansion in federal activity and authority from 1787 forward. The author documents how Americans came to read their Constitution to help them improve their roads, schools, colleges, cultural institutions, and health care, and to provide themselves with social insurance and safety-net programs for the vulnerable.

Author: Theodore Sky
ISBN-10: 1611491193
ISBN-13: 9781611491197
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 442
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d