How did you reach your conclusion? I selected that quote because it supports my contention of why our Founding Fathers took the time to enumerate the general powers. Why would they include those general powers (and limitations on what public monies were to be spent on) if they were to be nugatory?

It comes across as a form of republican doctrine because they are the ones that usually subscribe to the concept of specifically enumerated specific powers, whenever they don't need to come up with fallacies for the common Offense, or general Warfare.

I am getting at what you are saying. I disagree because we are no longer a third world political-economy.