[robertpaulsen]

Doesn't it make sense? Do you think the Founding Fathers meant for the states (or individuals) to be able to undermine and subvert Congress' interstate regulatory efforts this way?

[tacticalogic]

"Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. "

[Know your rights]

Do you think the Founding Fathers meant for the states (or individuals) to be able to undermine and subvert Congress' interstate regulatory efforts this way?

I respect their wisdom enough to think they were well aware that by denying Congress the authority to regulate intrastate activity they were making SOME interstate regulatory efforts less effective.