- The Hamiltonian View: Congress's power to tax and spend for the general welfare is an independent, broad power
- It is not limited to carrying out Congress's other enumerated Art. I pwoers
- In this case: Court struct down the Act in question because it sought to regulate agriculture, an activity strictly reserved for the States to regulat
- However, this strict 10A limitation has largely been abandoned
- today, the federal government is generally allowed to attach conditions to federal funds to influence state and local behavior
- Modes of Argumentation:
- Hamiltonian View v. Madisonian View: no concrete consensus on what the historical view was
- Not 100% sure what the framer intended—no established position to interpret under a strictly originalist argumentation