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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103131)	7/16/2007 7:49:48 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"tithable...parish...vestrymen" He's talking about Church activity.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103131)	7/16/2007 9:10:09 AM
From: Peter O'Brien	Respond to of 173976

it sounds like purely LOCAL control to me: "This assessment is levied and administered by twelve persons in each parish, called vestrymen, originally chosen by the housekeepers of the parish, but afterwards filling vacancies in their own body by their own choice. These are usually the most discreet farmers, so distributed through their parish, that every part of it may be under the immediate eye of some one of them. They are well acquainted with the details and œconomy of private life, and they find sufficient inducements to execute their charge well, in their philanthropy, in the approbation of their neighbours, and the distinction which that gives them."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103131)	7/16/2007 9:16:42 AM
From: Peter O'Brien	Respond to of 173976

Thomas Jefferson on the "General Welfare" clause: Our tenet ever was, and, indeed, it is almost the only landmark which now divides the federalists from the republicans, that Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they may raise money. Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin (June 16, 1817), in 10 WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON at 90, 91 (Paul Leicester Ford ed., 1899) quoted in Roger Pilon, Freedom, Responsibility, and the Constitution: On Recovering Our Founding Principles, 68 Notre Dame L. Rev. 507, 530.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103131)	7/16/2007 10:40:50 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

gee I thought you said Jefferson wasn't a Christian. He's talking about charity, not robbery