yea and RICO was to used only against the Mafia
We really need a constitutional amendment that prohibits the federal government from attaching strings to grants to the states.
As it is now: Here’s ten thousand dollars for your school. But you must follow Michelle’s food guidelines.
How it should be: Here’s ten thousand dollars for your school.
Even better: Your local school is none of our business, one way or the other.
Good article. Thanks. It’s weird, the liberals in government LOVE to tell us about the “dangers” of religion. Religion can’t hold a candle to the dangers of governments. The Founding Fathers understood that the government they were creating would, more than likely, eventually become an enemy of the people. All governments, regardless of the label we place on them, can become dangerous to the people that they rule over. IMHO.
The answer is - look at Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, or even Venezuela to get the general outline of our future.
Madison nails it.
The father of the Constitution knew exactly what might go wrong and exactly how the unscrupulous would do it. And they have screwed it up, exactly as he predicted.
Now, how do we get back on course?
That’s how schools wound up with the disastrous Commie Core. It was a carrot held out to them. If schools accepted Commie Core, they got big grants. Scary how the feds can extend their octopus reach by dangling some bucks before money-starved school districts.
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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:
“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”
The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added] . Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
But since the states have never amended the Constitution to give Congress such powers, it remains that the feds have no constitutional authority to interfere with intrastate schooling.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. United States v. Butler, 1936.
The constitutionally powerful states would find much more revenues to spend on public schooling if they eliminated funding from the unconstitutional middleman, the corrupt, constitutionally-humbled federal government, by growing some and stopping the feds from stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.