Look, even Thomas Jefferson in his Sixth Annual Message or State of the Union speech called for a specific Constitutional Amendment to create a Department of Education,
“I suppose an amendment to the Constitution, by consent of the States, necessary, because the objects now recommended are not among those enumerated in the Constitution, and to which it permits the public moneys to be applied.
The present consideration of a national establishment for education particularly is rendered proper by this circumstance also, that if Congress, approving the proposition...”
Today he`d be laughed at as some kinda kook nutjob and locked up.
Jefferson still understood how the Constitition properly operated and knew an Amendment was required to create such a department.
Now... Department of Giving Away Free Stuff? Sure! *vote*