Category: Constitutional Order
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Reclaiming Compassionate Welfare: A Christian Case for Constitutional Order
More Than Bread Alone: A Constitutional Shift Originally, federal authority was limited to specific areas such as interstate commerce. Court rulings such as Wickard v. Filburn (1942) and Gonzales v. Raich (2005), however, extended and widened the Commerce Clause and gave federal power to areas that never would have been within its purview—local welfare being…