[CitizenUSA]

10thAmendmentGuy: “I’m curious as to why you think them upholding ObamaCare would be such an egregious ruling.”

Even though the Commerce Clause has been warped and twisted in many ways, it’s never meant government has the right to force citizens to engage in commerce. Wickard v. Filburn, for example, didn’t force Filburn to buy wheat.

[10thAmendmentGuy]

Sadly, I think you underestimate the lengths to which the Commerce Clause has been decimated. I hope you are right, because the individual mandate is clearly unconstitutional.

Wickard was disgusting, but the first nail in the coffin was actually National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937). In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Commerce Clause gave Congress the power to regulate labor relations. This is the case that gave Congress basically unlimited power to regulate both economic AND non-economic activity under the Commerce Clause.