To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power

Theodore Sky

University of Delaware Press, 2003 - Law - 442 pages

The true scope of the constitutional authority given to Congress to lay taxes to provide for the "general welfare of the constitutional authority given to Congress to lay taxes to provide for the "general welfare of the United States" was a prominent political and legal issue until the Civil War and was not resolved by the Supreme Court until the 1930s.

Bibliographic information

• Title: To Provide for the General Welfare: A History of the Federal Spending Power
• Author: Theodore Sky
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0874137934, 9780874137934
• Length: 442 pages
• Subjects: Law / Taxation; Political Science / American Government / General; Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy; Political Science / Public Policy / General