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To: robertpaulsen
But if they ain't there, they ain't protected.

And if a federal power isn't enumerated in the Constitution, it isn't the federal government's to exercise. Strictly intrastate commerce is the State's business, speculation about whether it might be interstate commerce some day doesn't change that.

77 posted on 07/02/2006 10:03:47 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
"Strictly intrastate commerce is the State's business"

Yes it is ... except when it substantially affects some interstate commerce that Congress is constitutionally regulating.

81 posted on 07/02/2006 10:11:58 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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