United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936)(Congress can tax for the purpose of the general welfare and not the enumerated purposes in the tax and spend clause) and Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942)(Congress may prohibit economic activity directed an only intra state activity for personal consumption under the commerce clause because such activities may have an impact on interstate commerce).
Democrats have never respected it. It’s by design.
The simple explanation of the two parties. A conservative is supposed to keep things the way they are. A progressive is supposed to pass new laws and bring about change.
If you like the way things are, you vote conservative. If you want things changed you vote progressive.
A conservatives job is to vote “no” to everything. The moment A “yes” vote is given to change, its no longer conservation.
Republicans wanted to support a republic. A Democrat wanted to change to a popular, democratic vote. Bringing about a democracy. The first of such votes that got the parties their name was to end the electoral college.
The electoral college is the only thing k keeping us A republic and not a democracy.
Simplest explanation.
We’ve now been called a republic but we operate like a democracy and as predicted People started to vote themselves perks.
At one time being a legislator was not something People wanted. It paid little and carried a big burden. Those legislators learned to find power and sold that power to anyone who wanted to buy it.
Things really went downhill.
Now we’re literally WROL. It’s a free for all based on an illusion that any portion of the constitution or our original laws are still in place.
Oh yes, the commerce clause.. That was a real killer. The DC lawyer’s have used it for all sorts of “Corn-Ball” ideas..
What you described were enabled by, and dependent on, the Progressive 16th and 17th Amendments.
Overnight, these two amendments rendered the Framer’s stable and federal governing form into an unstable democratic form doomed to terminate in tyranny.
The wonder is that we’ve lasted so long.