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   What does promoting the general welfare mean?

   • Historically, promoting the general welfare has meant improving transportation, promoting agriculture and industry, protecting health and the environment, and seeking ways to solve social and economic problems. The idea that the government should be working for the ^general welfare_ or benefit of all has been repeated stated.

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   Why is general welfare important?

   • GENERAL WELFAREThe concern of the government for the health, peace, morality, and safety of its citizens.Providing for the welfare of the general public is a basic goal of government. The preamble to the U.S. Constitution cites promotion of the general welfare as a primary reason for the creation of the Constitution.

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   What is general national welfare?

   • General national welfare pertains to purposes and policies states could not achieve on their own due to lack of coordination among the states.

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   What does the preamble say about social welfare?

   • The Preamble states that an overriding purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to “promote the general welfare,” indicating that issues such as poverty, housing, food and other economic and social welfare issues facing the citizenry were of central concern to the framers.

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   Sep 15, 2011 · The Preamble states that an overriding purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to “promote the general welfare,” indicating that issues such as poverty, housing, food and other economic and social welfare issues facing the citizenry were of central concern to the framers.

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   The Preamble states that the Constitution exists “to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, [and] promote the general Welfare.”

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   • The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
   • To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; ArtI.S8.C2.1 Borrowing Power.
   • To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; ArtI.S8.C3.1 Commerce Powers. ArtI.S8.C3.1.1 Foreign Commerce Power.
   • To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; ArtI.S8.C4.1 Naturalization Power.

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   Prepared by: The New Jersey Center for Civic Education, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Grade Level: 6-8. Objectives: Students will be able to: Explain what “promote the general welfare” means. Give examples of governmental actions that promote the general welfare. Engage in a simulated legislative hearing.

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   GENERAL WELFARE. The concern of the government for the health, peace, morality, and safety of its citizens. Providing for the welfare of the general public is a basic goal of government. The preamble to the U.S. Constitution cites promotion of the general welfare as a primary reason for the creation of the Constitution.

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   We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ‹ U.S ...

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   Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.