Was the idea of a limited federal government doomed by slavery? We’ll discuss that next, on The Constitution Study.
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Like many of you, I am a product of the public schools. Like many of you I thought the Constitution was for lawyers and judges.
One day I read the Constitution, and was surprised to find I didn't need a law degree to understand it. Then I read the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers and even the Anti-Federalist Papers. As I learned more and more about our founding fathers and documents I saw how little we know about how our country was designed to work and how many people just didn't care.
I started The Constitution Study to help those who also want read and study our Constitution.
I am a little confused about what you mean about the increase of power of the federal government during the 70s. Do you think that the primary reason was the reduction of civics education in the public classroom?
I thought that the 17th amendment had so much to do with the massive expansion of government. You can directly track a steady rise in budgets and programs when the senators were no longer answering to the state legislators. I can see now how that was made possible by the 16th.
Yes, the 16th & 17th Amendments removed significant checks on the growth of the federal government. During the 1960s-1970s we saw the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, Dept. of of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, and Department of Education. None of these are enumerated powers delegated to the federal government. Yet all of this power was grabbed by the federal government without bothering with a constitutional amendment. I believe they were able to get away with this power grab in part due to a lack of general knowledge of the supreme law of the land by the electorate. While this is in large part due to the state of public education, the failure should rest at the feet of those who turned their children over to the government to educate without oversight.