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To: RonF; Maceman
I agree with Maceman in #77. Further, it was thought at the time that the 10th amendment was redundant: "The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered."

Since both Houses of Congress refused to insert the word "expressly" before "delegated", the courts (post-FDR) have since used that to expand the "interstate commerce" clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) of the Constitution to include anything that may be even remotely associated with interstate commerce.

Certainly, education affects the ability of a state to effect interstate commerce .... so they say. Well, what doesn't? Ergo, the federal government poking their nose into everything under the cover of the notorious "interstate commerce clause". In 1995, the Supreme Court in the US v Lopez case finally put the brakes on the congressional abuse of the commerce clause. Maybe that will hold some hope for overturning some other rulings

79 posted on 06/30/2002 2:55:38 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
I would argue the way education is run today, we are essentially establishing secularism and thus, public education should be ruled unconstitutional altogether.
93 posted on 06/30/2002 4:00:24 PM PDT by rwfromkansas
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