The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense. In these are comprehended the regulation of commerce that is, the whole system of foreign intercourse; the support of armies and navies, and of the civil administration. - Alexander Hamilton, remarks to the New York Ratifying Convention, 1788
Hamilton laid out the core functions of the federal government; unfortunately, the powers-that-be have so distorted the Constitution's words that if the Framers of the Constitution were alive today, they'd likely be calling for another revolution.
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