Forbidding, interdicting, and hindering are not the same thing as regulating, or "making regular," or adjusting by rule or method. It does not tell you how to do something, but instead tells you that you may not do it at all. -- "
How many times must all levels of our governments be told that they do not have the power to prohibit?
All forms of activity that require a license are prohibited. A license is defined as permission to do something which would otherwise be illegal. So driving is prohibited.
Much indeed is it to be wished, as I conceive, that no regulations of trade, that is to say, no restriction or imposts whatever, were necessary. A perfect freedom is the System which would be my choice. But before such a system will be eligible perhaps for the U. S. they must be out of debt; before it will be attainable, all other nations must concur in it.
I assume you have read his book "Restoring the Lost Constitution, A Presumption of Liberty."
I have three times.
What is amazing to me is some many "Freepers" when confronted with Prof. Barnett's "presumption of liberty," recoil in fear of liberty.
The most famous person of all who recoils in such fear is Rush Limbaugh.
So Congress doesn't have the power to prohibit commerce with foreign nations?
Weasel words.
Hooray for Randy Barnett! Gold veins in old mines re-tapped!
So, to a strict Constitutionalist, who believes that the government only has powers specifically granted in the Constitution, it is not constitutional to have an air force?
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