If your children are actually not your children but belong to the community, then it only makes sense that the government should bear the primary responsibility for the education your children. The government, not you, has the right and therefore the authority to determine what your children think. [More]
Actually, I don't have that authority, either. I could control to an extent what I allowed into the home and where they could go and with whom while they were in my charge, and try to provide the best example of behaviors consistent with advocacies that I could. But ultimately, the world would get its crack at them and it would be up to them if they chose to wear the armor I provided as they followed their own quests.
The one thing I can say for sure is it's not the government's authority and any attempt to make it so is casus belli, which is why, in addition to armor, I introduced them to the sword.
[Via Michael G]
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"A license is a special kind of permission. In this case, it’s a permission to be a parent..."
Outrageous! The government believes they have the power to license a right?
All you school parents who thought this was a great idea for guns: welcome to the consequences.
In the beginning, or as my USMC vet friend would say, back when Christ was a corporal, the power to do anything resided with the People and with the respective colonial or state governments.
In THEORY, the Federal Government has only those powers delegated to it bu the States as described in the Constitution of the United States as amended. If it isn't in there, the Federal Government can't LEGALLY do it.
In PRACTICE, they can and do usurp powers not delegated to them, often stretching the Commerce Clause all out of recognition. Occasionally, SCOTUS manages to find the time to jerk FedGov's chain on the matter. Sometimes FedGov wins, sometimes they lose.
See:
United States v Lopez (1995)
Prinz v United States (1997)
Wickard v Filburn (1942)
The REALITY is, if they want to do it, they try it, and no one calls them on it, they get to do it.
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