"We
have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called
California."
- Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.)
"One may argue that the ensuing history of our country has been the
history of the struggle between those trying to preserve a decentralized
order (originally embodied in the Jeffersonians) and those wanting more
centralization (originally the Hamiltonians). The centralists made control
of education one of their first goals, which is why we see calls for
government-
funded
"public schools" going back to the early 1800s. The centralizing
impulse succeeded at creating a system of government-
funded
colleges, embodied in the land-grant system created by the Morrill Act.
President Buchanan had refused to sign the Morrill Act into law during the
late 1850s on the grounds that it was unconstitutional; he correctly
observed that the Constitution did not authorize federal involvement in
college education. Then, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Act into law
as a wartime measure. Clearly, education - at all levels - has become
more and more centralized ever since. " - Steven Yates
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