[Jim Robinson]

Every federal agency should have to underego examination to determine if they are authorized by the Constitution. If not, they should be disbanded and any assets sold off and the proceeds returned to the treasury. If the individual states wish to continue the function, and the state constitutions allow it, and the state legislatures vote it in, so be it.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Every federal agency should have to underego examination to determine if they are authorized by the Constitution. If not, they should be disbanded and any assets sold off and the proceeds returned to the treasury. If the individual states wish to continue the function, and the state constitutions allow it, and the state legislatures vote it in, so be it.

Yeah. What Jim said!

:-)

[Dick Bachert]

Absolutely!

Ron Paul led a brief movement in Congress to get them to do a Constitutional Impact Study DETAILING precisely WHERE the Constitution authorized ALL new legislation.

Needless to say, it failed.

Like my old friend, Lester Maddo -- no states right slouch himself -- said when the crime in the Georgia prison system was brought to his attention, "What we need is a better class of criminal."

We'll get these things done when we get a better class of politician.

And we'll get THEM when we get a better class of citizen.

Hat's off to you, Jim, for aiding that vital process.

[marron]

Every federal agency should have to underego examination to determine if they are authorized by the Constitution.

Yes. Absolutely.

Any agency that is not constitutionally federal in nature should either be dismantled, or divided into 50 parts and handed back to the states. That puts political control closer to the control of the citizen. And, it allows 50 ongoing experiments in governance, which is what our system is supposed to provide. There is nothing wrong with having 50 different policies on a given subject; if we are free people, it is a certainty that we will have 50 different policies that should converge over time, but never completely agree.

And I agree with your earlier post; to even think about doing this, it is going to take a clear Repub majority in Congress... not just Repubs, of course, but conservative small "L" libertarian Repubs, to get this job done.