Between the political discourse in America today and the general lack of knowledge about the Constitution and how the governments of this country are designed to work, it should not be a surprise that people are concerned not only about what returning to a Constitutional Republic would look like. We’ll ponder 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 agree passing an amendment that defines the roles of the feds to restrict how they can regulate all the current unconstitutional programs they are running would be a step toward a better constitutional republic.
However, we need to be cautious that we would be legally giving them that power. How will we implement the phasing out of these programs thru such an amendment over a long period of time? Could in 10 years instead their new legal authority actually be expanded by the future government?
I work in the architect/engineering design field relating to new building construction. There are many national standards that we follow in the industry. Such as the IBC, NEC, NFPA, ASHRAE, etc. codes which set standards for building safety, construction, and efficiency among all aspects of new buildings. These are all nationally utilized private, mostly non-profit organizations. They are mostly funded thru offering training/seminars and selling their code books. They are much more efficient mechanisms in my opinion of having national standards. Government standards are too slow, expensive, and politicized.
I agree, we would have to be careful whenever we grant power to government, federal or otherwise. But wouldn’t it be better to grant limited power, especially if we start holding them to that limit, than to just let them do whatever they want?