The Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, paragraph 3 gives Congress authority “To regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”
James Madison, the father of our Constitution, explained, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Wickard v. Filburn. Mr. Filburn was a small farmer in Ohio. The Department of Agriculture had set production quotas. Mr. Filburn harvested nearly 12 acres of wheat above his government allotment. He argued that the excess wheat was unrelated to commerce since he grew it for his own use. He was fined anyway. The Court reasoned that had he not grown the extra wheat he would have had to purchase wheat; therefore, he was indirectly affecting interstate commerce.
So here we are today with the largess of federal control trumping every freedom and right reserved to the State and the People.