Example sentences for "promote the general welfare"
To promote the general welfare," referred to their own welfare exclusively.
Measures were pursued to concert a plan to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.
It is the duty of a good representative to inquire what measures are most likely to promote the general welfare, and, after he has discovered them, to give them his support.
To promote the general welfare" was the great object for which the government was organized, and all the provisions of the constitution have that in view.
It ought to be implanted in their minds, that their rulers are men fit to conduct every plan which might be proposed, to promote the general welfare of the people; and this with truth may be asserted.
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