With all due respect, I don’t see you also referencing the Constitution and Supreme Court case opinions.
As far as today’s very corrupt, post-FDR era courts are concerned, the Constitution was ratified when FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring justices wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in 1942 in Congress’s favor imo, not in 1788.
"The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” —Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819.
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." —Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823."
Consider, as a consequence of growing up with a very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification, post-FDR federal government, everybody thinks that everything the feds do is constitutional.
> With all due respect, I don’t see you also referencing the Constitution and Supreme Court case opinions.
That’s because this is kind of casual conversation, and I’m talking about what happens in practice rather than what the ignored law is.
In practice, the feds control much of the flow of education money, regardless of how unconstitutional it may be. That’s the reality. Suing them within that reality for civil rights violations is far more feasible than arguing in court that the feds can’t touch it.