What I’ve always wondered is how the government knew he had wheat he kept for himself.
Wickard vs Filburn would have been reversed. Ask Justice Thomas.
the GOP right has been trying for a generation to change the composition of the court ... and have come close a few times.
If more conservatives had been serious, it would have happened.
And...
The Commerce Clause is only ONE CLAUSE inside of a bigger document that is intended to LIMIT and DO THE OPPOSITE OF the things that they use to Commerce Clause to do...
In the early ‘80s, the Texas Panhandle was having a bad drought. The winter wheat crop looked doomed as a grain crop, so farmers wanted to graze their cattle on it because their regular pasture land had no more grass.
They had to request permission from the USDA in Washington D. C. to let their starving cattle graze their wheat on their land. Of course, it took so long to wend its way through the red tape that many farmers had to sell their cattle.
That’s when I realized we were no longer a free country.
The most important point in Wickard vs Filburn was that it acted upon Filburn's CORPORATE status, not his NON-corporate, natural person.
This is true for ALL federal power grabs.
For more than 70 years, the feds have been getting away with this one single trick - switching corporate for non-corporate status.
And still, no one cares. Buy guns? Check. Buy food? Check. Go to church? Check. Understand the law? What, are you kidding me?
Roberts recently drew judicial notice of this distinction in his Obamacare ruling. He did the Chief Justice equivalent of jumping up and down with a flaming sword to point out this mechanism, and even named it the "Two Powers."
Result? :: crickets ::
Even on FR.
If the country is lost, it's from laziness and moral cowardice, not from being infiltrated or overthrown. The solution is right in front of everyone's face, and it involves no violence or revolution - just learning and following the actual law. But what does that matter, when there are no takers?
Maybe we should all rip up our lawns and plant wheat on every damn conservative lawn in america....
Consider it a Wickard vs. Fillborn protest, if the city council cites you for zoning HOA etc... Ask them if polical signs are banned and thell this this is a direct protest against Wickard vs. Fillborn.
then you can Educate them on WHy you are doing it, granted you may make some enemies but you may be able to awake and educate people too....
You are correct. The Commerce Clause cases from the FDR era were a death blow of the Constitutional Republic. It has been slowly persihing ever since.
I expect we will se its complete demise in our lifetimes....and the Obama voting blocs will celebrate.