Now, do we have the intestinal fortitude to actually support overturning Wickard v. Filburn and the New Deal “substantial effects” Commerce Clause, or will we run screaming in the other direction because it will also take down the federal domestic drug war?
Kill TWO federal boondoggles with one shot??? Where do I sign?
The idea behind Wickard is so fundamentally at odds with the concept of a limited federal government that I simply cannot understand why it hasn’t already been overturned. The case stood for the proposition that a farmer cannot even grow food for his own family on his own farm, because of the fact that by doing so he will reduce demand for the food produced by other farmers (including some across state lines), thereby upsetting some 5-year master plan dictated by the Politburo errrr, Department of Agriculture. Utterly outrageous - what’s next, federal employees giving you the choice between going through a scanner that reveals every detail of your body vs. getting felt-up if you refuse the scan?
Oh.
Wait.
Nevermind.
Seriously, Wickard must be tossed out. It destroys the concept of federalism, the concept that we should be governed by those closest to us - physically and electorally. The way things are now, people 1,000 or more miles from most people pass laws in the dark of night without even knowing what’s in them, and then delegate the power to interpret those laws to a bunch of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. If the Founders could be somehow resurrected, I know for a fact that they’d begin fomenting a revolution as soon as they found out what was going on.