Eliminate the Dept. of Education? The Constitution's OK with that

To the editor:

About ten years ago, I stopped in a library in Medfield, Massachusetts, a town about 40 miles West and South of Boston. At its book sale, I found "Formation of the Union Under the Constitution" in 1943 which was published to celebrate the Sesquicentenial-150 years of the U.S. Constitution. It was published by the U.S Government Printing Office which was totally controlled by the New Deal Democrats. It is an excellent book that contains the History of the United States detailed information on how the U.S. Constitution was formed, copies, a circular letter from Governor John Hancock expressing his opposition to an Article V Convention, and a chapter of Liberty Documents from the Magna Carta to the Monroe Doctrine. Starting on page 121 of the book, we find a series of questions and answers. One of the most interesting questions in the book is found on page 128: "Where, in the Constitution is there mention of education? And the answer in this New Deal publication: "There is none; education is a matter reserved for the states."

Since there hasn't been any amendment added to the Constitution to make federal funding constitutional, the Department of Education, and all funds going to school and colleges are unconstitutional. The Department of Education should be abolished, and all federal government funding of schools must end. Sadly, there isn't much political will to make this happen. But that can change. Let's begin by letting elected officials at all levels know that we have a federal document published under a New Deal Democrat Administration that those who vote for and accept federal funds for education are violating their oaths of office.

While the book is out-of-print and there are a limited number of hard back copies available, Camp Constitution makes the book available as a free PDF: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/History-of-the-Formation-of-the-Union-Under-the-Constitution.pdf