Understanding the Constitution: the 14th Amendment: Part I
- November 15, 2021
Blaming the highways for planners’ poor ideas is the same as blaming a two-by-four for an architect’s poor building design.
READ MOREThe 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
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