"I cannot undertake to lay my finger
on that article of the Constitution
which granted a right to Congress of expending,
on the objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents."

-- James Madison

(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

Source: 1792, in disapproval of Congress appropriating $15,000 to assist some French refugees

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