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| - | This educational conflict over Common Core, an outrage to parents across the nation, reveals that we’ve drifted far off course. | + | ---- |
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| ===== Let’s Provide Our Children Common Sense, Not Common Core ===== | ===== Let’s Provide Our Children Common Sense, Not Common Core ===== | ||
| **Michael P. Farris, JD, LLM, Convention of States Action — Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies** | **Michael P. Farris, JD, LLM, Convention of States Action — Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies** | ||
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| While the Supreme Court has recognized that the federal government can’t directly regulate education, the court also has ruled that Congress’ power to tax and spend under the General Welfare Clause is, for most practical purposes, unlimited. Congress is therefore free to take money from a state’s taxpayers, then offer it back—on the condition that the state gives Congress control of its schools. | While the Supreme Court has recognized that the federal government can’t directly regulate education, the court also has ruled that Congress’ power to tax and spend under the General Welfare Clause is, for most practical purposes, unlimited. Congress is therefore free to take money from a state’s taxpayers, then offer it back—on the condition that the state gives Congress control of its schools. | ||
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| - | This fight isn’t merely about education policy. It’s about the principle of self-government that is the real common core of America. | + | ---- |
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| + | //This fight isn’t merely about education policy. It’s about the principle of self-government that is the real common core of America.// | ||
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| The Common Core battle also raises the fundamental issue of who makes federal law. The Founders thought they’d settled the question, declaring in Article I, Section 1 that all federal laws must be made by Congress. Yet states like Oklahoma are punished for challenging mere administrative decisions of the Obama administration. | The Common Core battle also raises the fundamental issue of who makes federal law. The Founders thought they’d settled the question, declaring in Article I, Section 1 that all federal laws must be made by Congress. Yet states like Oklahoma are punished for challenging mere administrative decisions of the Obama administration. | ||
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