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“An example of how federal control is achieved is found in the Race to the Top (RTTT) program that allocated $4.35 billion for states to share in who agree to adopt a number of federal mandates. What Jeb Bush ignores, just as President Obama, is our Founders were staunch advocates of preserving federalism, our Constitution’s plan, and forbid our federal government to meddle in a state’s internal affairs, and that includes a state’s public school system.”
What you and others on the radical and extreme right ignore is the fact that the Constitution exists solely in the context of its case law, as determined by the Supreme Court per the doctrine of judicial review, as authorized by Articles III and VI of the Constitution:
that acts of Congress are Constitutional until the Supreme Court rules otherwise (US v. Morrison (2000));
that the Constitution affords Congress powers both expressed and implied (McCulloch v. Maryland (1819));
and that the Framers were not of one mind concerning any issue, which is why they left the ratification of the Constitution to the people alone, not the states, without interference or undue influence by the Framers.
Our Supreme Court is not vested with power to amend our Constitution by offering opinions which are not in harmony with the text of our Constitution and violate its documented legislative intent.
Now, that I have addressed your nonsense, please point to the wording in our Constitution which delegates a power to our federal government to tax for, spend on and regulate public schools created under state Constitutions.
JWK
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people.___ Tenth Amendment