[Straight Vermonter]

They came pretty damn close to it.

Even if activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce, and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time be defined as "direct" or "indirect."

Wickard v. Filburn

[Yo-Yo]

Given the current court's panache for overturning stare decisis re. corporate campaign spending, perhaps Wickward v. Filburn would also be revisitied.