General Welfare: A Caption to Specified Powers – Not a License For Congress to do Whatever Comes to Mind!
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.
It is to be remarked that the phrase out of which this doctrine is elaborated is copied from the old Articles of Confederation, where it (General Welfare) was always understood as nothing more than a general caption to the specified powers, (Article 1 Section 
and it is a fact that it was preferred in the new instrument for that very reason, as less liable than any other to misconstruction.
Remaining always most affectionately yours”
January 21, 1792
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