Politicos Pigging Out on the Cash You Pay for Gas0

• December 8, 2013

The Framers drafted the Constitution to grant Congress some powers to construct infrastructure. For example, the Commerce Clause, as originally understood, grants authority to construct facilities for navigation such as dockyards and ports—including, presumably, airports.  Authority to maintain the military enables Congress to fund military facilities. Article I, Section 1, Clause 8 empowers Congress to