Yesterday I was so ill I couldn’t record an episode of my podcast.
In the past I’ve recorded the Tom Woods Show when I’ve felt like I was barely clinging to life, so this was pretty bad.
You know what it also meant?
I missed Constitution Day!
Constitution Day, you’ll recall, is the day of the year when the federal government unconstitutionally requires schools to teach about the Constitution.
Without fail, I get pushback every year when I point that out. I then wonder how anyone who would object to that obviously true statement could have wound up following me.
Regarding the Constitution: I don’t recall ever getting the sense in school that the Constitution might actually prohibit anything major that the federal government was doing.
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I trust you had the same experience.
Nobody leaves school and thinks, “Oh, gosh, almost everything is unconstitutional!”
Instead, they think: everything I like is ipso facto constitutional.
Or, more commonly: they never give the subject another thought.
Just days ago, I came across a Facebook page whose admin thought he was being clever: he took a screenshot of someone demanding to know where in the Constitution the federal government had been given the power to spend money on health care. Onto that screenshot he superimposed the preamble to the Constitution, and circled the words “general welfare”.
Get it? He thinks he’s really stuck it to that strict constructionist of the Constitution. Why, that rube doesn’t realize there’s a general welfare clause, and that authorizes health care spending!
WOMP WOMP. No, it doesn’t.
First: preambles do not delegate powers. This is the…