[El Gato]

It is, whether congress has a right to regulate that, which is not committed to it, under a power, which is committed to it, simply because there is, or may be an intimate connexion between the powers. If this were admitted, the enumeration of the powers of congress would be wholly unnecessary and nugatory. Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments. "

A thinker of his time, that Story guy. I wonder if he ever thought Congress would manage to make his nightmare come true, without a Constitutional amendment? He certainly would have known they would try, but probably expected the people sheep to rise up and swat them if they did.

[tacticalogic]

Everybody seems to say they want SC justices that subscribe to an “original intent” interpretation of the Constitution, but nobody seems to want politicians that practice it.