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But the idea of an enumeration of particulars which neither explain nor qualify the general meaning, and can have no other effect than to confound and mislead, is an absurdity,
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Madison clearly states the rationale for the explanatory list of specific powers in relation to the general powers in this quote.
If there had been no examples of specific powers, then the Anti-federalists would have had a point about the general powers. Why enumerate a general power if only specific enumerated powers were to have any validity?
I think that was the point Madison was trying to make.