PaintMyHouse
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- #821
So me trying to sell guns to the indians and Congress saying no isn't the regulation of my "private" business? Care to try again?
Limited or not, it still allowed for the regulation of private transactions. You lost before you started.
No it didn't, dumbass. It only allowed regulation of transactions between states. The only reason the commerce clause was added to the Constitution was the fact that prior to its adoption states enacted numerous regulations designed to obstruct commerce between the states. The commerce clause was intended to limit such regulations, not give the federal government a blank check to restrict commerce.
From the article I referred you to:
The most persuasive evidence of original meaning--statements made during the drafting and ratification of the Constitution as well as dictionary definitions and The Federalist Papers--strongly supports Justice Thomas's and the Progressive Era Supreme Court's narrow interpretation of Congress's power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."214 "Commerce" means the trade or exchange of goods (including the means of transporting them); "among the several States" means between persons of one state and another; and the term "To regulate" means "to make regular"--that is, to specify how an activity may be transacted--when applied to domestic commerce, but also includes the power to make "prohibitory regulations" when applied to foreign trade. In sum, Congress has power to specify rules to govern the manner by which people may exchange or trade goods from one state to another, to remove obstructions to domestic trade erected by states, and to both regulate and restrict the flow of goods to and from other nations (and the Indian tribes) for the purpose of promoting the domestic economy and foreign trade.
Turds like you have been telling the same lies about the commerce clause since the FDR administration.