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promoting general welfare
Promote the general welfare
You haven't provided the statements so we can't answer your question. In 1935 welfare for poor children and others became a federal government responsibility. The government provided funds directly to recipients or to the states to have people maintain a minimum standard of living.
Welfare is a rather vague term. I would say that the federal government got into welfare in a big way when Franklin Roosevelt was president. As you probably know, welfare is not one of powers explicitly given to the federal government by the US Constitution and every power not explicitly given is left to the states. It took the Supreme Court quite some time to find ways around this legal problem. States counties and cities had poor farms and orphans' homes and food kitchens for a long time before the feds got into the act.
Interdependence and federal government's superior taxing powers have increased role for the national government at the state level. Most of the programs at state level now depend on federal funding, giving national government unprecedented leverage in the states. Now federal government is taking active role in issues like education and social welfare, which were traditionally in the state domain. Role of the national government has also increased in the areas of security and surveillance after the September 11 attacks.
The government is not suppose to provide for the general welfare, it is suppose to promote the general welfare. There is a big dfference.
Social Policy
they make sure that their people are happy and have a good future. they would also want the citizens to get along well with each other.
federal government
General welfare policies are government policies that affect the general welfare of citizens. This includes things such as health and safety.
The phrase 'to promote general welfare' means to do things that would improve the health, prosperity, or well-being of the person. The phrase is located in the Preamble to the Constitution.
Examples of promoting the general welfare are promoting security, food and drug laws, protection of the people (policemen, firemen, etc.), and overall healthy living.
A welfare reform is a movement to change the federal government's social welfare policy which shifts responsibility to the states and cut benefits.
Through federal government and enacted on by local government
The New Deal sought to create federal government programs to improve the welfare of the American republic.
"promote the general welfare" -novanet
Animal welfare is the responsibility of the state government. However as the federal government must have responsibility in the case of live export.