As long as there is such a thing as “Student Visa’s” then the government will be interfering in the market. Do you propose the Govt:
Do away with the VA education benefits for our soldiers?
Do away with research grants to universities?
Cancel the Student Visa program.
No longer back student loans?
Cancel all federal grants to universities?
I respect your purist conservative / federalist beliefs. However proposing any of these things in a National Platform would be electoral suicide.
You are correct. I would like to see the government follow the Constitution.Of course the powerful interests ignored the restrictions from the day the ink dried.But mostly the Constitution was followed until the 1860s when the will of those in Washington, D.C. began to control the nation.In the early 1900s even more of the power shifted to D.C. elies.
And most Republicans would be aghast if anyone seriously proposed to abolish the thousand-and-one federal programs that violate the original intent and words of the Constitution.
For the great majority of the people you could edit the Constitution down to this:
“...promote the general welfare...”