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On #74 it was my understanding that post road referred to any long duration high way.

Andrew Jackson went so far as to veto an expenditure for a highway that both began and ended in Kentucky, stating that such an expenditure was unconstitutional because the highway did not cross state lines.

This, to me, is a key difference on how the commerce clause is being read today vs. how it was meant. IOW, originally it was meant as trade “between” the states rather than trade that affected trade between the states. Without this larger interpretation, we couldn’t have had the civil rights act of 1964. I also this that the reason isn’t as insidious as just “Wilsonian Progressives” but also the effect serving in WWII had on common Americans.

At 34, Madison lists some powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution. If you take exception to any of these powers, make a case for keeping them with the states.

34 I shall confine myself to a cursory review of the remaining powers comprehended under this third description, to wit: to regulate commerce among the several states and the Indian tribes, to coin money. . . .

To coin money..... That does seem to be a problem today, doesn’t it? That is since the Federal Government has outsourced it to the Federal Reserve. I’m not a Ron Paul guy by any means but ending the Fed does seem to bring us closer to the constitution.

As for the other powers, they all seem correct to me.