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In 2008 and 2012, presidential candidate Ron Paul campaigned in part on an opposition to the department. Upgrading Education to cupboard stage standing in 1979 was opposed by many within the Republican Party, who noticed the division as unconstitutional, arguing that the Constitution doesn’t point out education, and deemed it an pointless and illegal federal bureaucratic intrusion into local affairs. However, many see the department as constitutional under the Commerce Clause, and that the funding function of the department is constitutional under the Taxing and Spending Clause. The National Education Association supported the invoice, while the American Federation of Teachers…