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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

You don’t really think the feds will buy that argument, do you? The same government that sued (and won) against a farmer who was growing crops on his own land, for his own use, on the argument that even though he wasn’t selling anything across state lines, he was AFFECTING interstate commerce?


12 posted on 06/24/2014 5:16:42 PM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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To: RightFighter

It’s one of the ideas of the 10th Amendment movement. Right now it would not win, but if enough states agree to it, and enough turnover in congress, it most definitely has a chance.

FDR built his New Deal around the Interstate Commerce Clause, and LBJ built his Great Society welfare state around the General Welfare Clause, both of which were nonsensical extrapolations. To throw out these ideas goes a great way to restoring our constitution.

It won’t be easy, but it never is.


13 posted on 06/24/2014 6:02:59 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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