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Some on the left are mocking today’s reading of the Constitution on the House floor as a political gimmick. While this is a largely symbolic act by the Republican House, it accompanies a series of more substantive new House rules that require lawmakers, for instance, to cite where the Constitution authorizes the bill they introduce.

Neither reading the Constitution nor initiating this new rule will by itself restore the limited government conceived of during the early republic. But it is an encouraging first step at a time when government â€" and specifically, the administrative state â€" has grown large, intrusive, and often invisible.

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