[tacticalogic]

The government shouldn’t be in the business of mandating anything *all for our own good*.

Then why did the Founders empower them to do things like establish standard weights and measures, and require that they be used?

[metmom]

Things are not people. Sheesh.

Mandating attendance at government controlled schools centers is not a power that the government was given.

[takenoprisoner]

“Then why did the Founders empower them to do things like establish standard weights and measures, and require that they be used? “

I’m thinking they didn’t want anything to do with the metric system. The measurements had to be measured differently.