[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

And the Amendment that prohibits governments from the Federal to the local level from controlling or outlawing specified noxious drugs (i.e. the "right to smoke dope") is?

Your logic is the backward logic of the Left, i.e. that the federal government has all powers not specifically prohibitted to it, while in fact the basic principal of federal power before the New Deal Supreme Court (and taught as if it were still true when I went to school some thirty years ago) is that the federal government has only powers delegated to it in the Constitution. The onus is therefore on you to show the clause in the Constitution or Amendments upon which these bureaucracies are based rather than taking them as given and require a specific proscription to dismantle them. This is the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. Your view places you squarely on the Left.

[pawdoggie]

You're amazing. You make an argument which you freely acknowledge has been "overturned" by the "post New Deal Supreme Court", then you tell me that I have the "onus" of disproving your "overturned" arguments! We may not like every decision of the Supreme Court(s), but until they are "overturned" by succeeding courts, or through Constitutional amendment, they are the law (as opposed to your "previous understanding" or interpretation). Don't tell me how you interpret the Commerce Clause, 'cause your interpretation and a dollar won't even get you a cup of Starbucks these days.