To: robertpaulsen
Congress has the right to legislate intrastate activity if they determine that anything done by every state within its borders would have a substantial effect on interstate trade they're currently regulating.
This rule is completely made up with no support in the Constitution. Congress has the right to legislate interstate trade. Period. For example, it can legislate the movement of machine guns between the several states. It cannot legislate the manufacture or sale of machine guns that takes place completely within a state.
The rule you provide is an obvious attempt to give the federal government more power than the Constitution grants it.
666 posted on
11/08/2005 11:17:45 AM PST by
BikerNYC
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: BikerNYC
"For example, it can legislate the movement of machine guns between the several states."Can it ban the movement of machine guns between the several states?
To: BikerNYC
Can Congress regulate interstate air traffic -- set air corridors, flight rules, radio frequencies, landing patterns, etc.?
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