What Would the Founders Say About Common Core?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/what-would-the-founders-s_b_1562689.html Zachary Karabell, writing for Time magazine, claims “One of America’s favorite pastimes is to play the ‘what would the Founding Fathers say’ game. Just pick an issue du jour, and ask the question.” Most players tend to be on the political right, including the Federalist Society which frequently hosts “original intent” Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas at its soirees. Conservative author Larry Scheikart, a regular guest on Fox News, is a leading practitioner of the game. In his book What Would the Founders Say, A Patriot’s Answer to America’s Most Pressing Problems, Scheikart argues they really opposed separation of church and state, a federal role in education and health care, environmental protection, gun control, bank and […]