Agree, and a question I’ve posted in the past seems to gain no ground, but here it is again: Wondering if the wording should be changed from “regulate” to “Mediate” interstate commerce.
Seems to me the word “regulate” has been a boon to the Leftists, therefore a change to “mediate” unresolveable differences between the States.
Take the responsibility away from the Federal Government to “regulate” as that seems to be a feeder for the Left’s goal of centralizing government so they can do to us as they are today, and place the responsibility to the States with the Fed acting as mediator upon request only.
Ultimately we have to take away the perceived power of the Federal Government OVER the States, and return to States rights. The Fed as the entity chartered to maintain the affairs of the Union of the States only.
Anyway that’s my take on it.
Article 1, Section 9 :
“No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.”
Madison:
“A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States, from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter. Were these at liberty to regulate the trade between State and State, it must be foreseen that ways would be found out to load the articles of import and export, during the passage through their jurisdiction, with duties which would fall on the makers of the latter and the consumers of the former. We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice would be introduced by future contrivances; and both by that and a common knowledge of human affairs, that it would nourish unceasing animosities, and not improbably terminate in serious interruptions of the public tranquility.”
What the Founders clearly meant was that States with ports that imported goods and then shipped them to land locked States could not impose massive taxes merely because some States had no access to the sea.
Simple. Commerce Clause meant free trade between States.
Today, Constitution means 180 degree opposite of what was originally written