The overarching role of government, as outlined in the Constitution, is to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ...

The preamble of the Constitution declares that our government is supposed to “promote the general Welfare.” Yet conservatives claim progressive programs are un-American. Conservatives say the ...

The preamble to the Constitution states that one fundamental purpose of the government is to “promote the general Welfare.” One might say the term “general welfare” does not give our ...

Another core duty is to “promote the general Welfare” (capitalization in the original). This is the constitutional duty that Democrats who seek to improve the lives of others are working to ...

A Democratic lawmaker in California is pushing legislation that would decriminalize most welfare fraud. State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas recently introduced SB 560, a bill that would eliminate ...

I think the US Constitution's Preamble has been forgotten. Medicaid will be cut in the proposed budget bill, but it's part of our 'general Welfare.' ...

The Preamble states that one of the main purposes of enacting the U.S. Constitution is to “promote the general welfare.” The general welfare has been interpreted as referring to the well-being ...