I know how to read dummy why don't you show us where in article 1 section 8 the Federal government gets this power. Here lets take a look at it and see.
The
Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties,
Imposts and
Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the
common Defence and general
Welfare of the United States; but all Duties,
Imposts and
Excises shall be
uniform throughout the United States;
Nope no power here to fund education.
Well maybe if you include it in the general welfare section however I don't believe that the general welfare is the catch all that congress wants it to be. Since if it was there would be no need to list the powers granted to the gov. in the rest of this section. According to the free dictionary
James Madison, said
the clause authorized Congress to spend money, but only to carry out the powers and duties specifically enumerated in the subsequent clauses of Article I, Section 8, and elsewhere in the Constitution, not to meet the seemingly infinite needs of the general welfareTo borrow money on the credit of the United States;
Nope that there eitherTo regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
No such power hereTo establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the
subject of
Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
Nope not there eitherTo coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
again no such power To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the
Securities and current Coin of the United States;
or hereTo establish
Post Offices and
Post Roads;
or hereTo promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
or hereTo constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
or hereTo define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
or hereTo declare War, grant
Letters of Marque and
Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
or hereTo raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
or hereTo provide and maintain a Navy;
nope not here eitherTo make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
nope not hereTo provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
or hereTo provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the
Officers, and the
Authority of
training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
or hereTo exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places
purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
nope there eitherTo make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for
carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
not here either
That job fall to all those lobbists and corporations (ALEX).
