Posted on 02/13/2012 7:12:20 PM PST by neverdem
You still don't get it: "fixing the Standard of Measure" has NOTHING to do with regulating items that can be measured by that standard.
Exactly what did you think was the basis in constitutional law for regulating atomic power plants?
To which "judgment of the Supreme Court" do you refer?
Exactly what did you think was the basis in constitutional law for regulating atomic power plants?
I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was "none." Are you implying it's the Weights and Measures clause? Where's the evidence?
We started out with INDIVIDUALS with the big guns and the government renting them for wars.
So, what about atomic power plants? What did the Founders do there? Did they assign such prerogatives to INDIVIDUALS, or did they find some other hidden way to keep them out of your hands?
Is it interstate commerce? Come on, tell me how they did it?
To which "judgment of the Supreme Court" do you refer?
Exactly what did you think was the basis in constitutional law for regulating atomic power plants?
I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was "none." Are you implying it's the Weights and Measures clause? Where's the evidence?
Think about it a moment ~ the Constitution recognized that INDIVIDUALS had the right to mount and carry arrays of heavy weapons on private ships ~ as big as anything the Navy had at the time.
We started out with INDIVIDUALS with the big guns and the government renting them for wars.
So, what about atomic power plants? What did the Founders do there? Did they assign such prerogatives to INDIVIDUALS, or did they find some other hidden way to keep them out of your hands?
Is it interstate commerce? Come on, tell me how they did it?
All that cavorting but no answers to my simple questions. Dance, monkey, dance.
http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/mediahistory/mhmjour2-2.htm ~ just for you. Herbert Hoover regulated radio ~ following Progressive standards ~ means the GD Commies did it, so now you know why the public let Roosevelt take over. As you read through that piece you’ll notice the use of the term “technology” and the limitations it had. Earlier there was no radio, but as soon as they got a grasp of how it worked, it was pretty obvious radio didn’t stop at the state line ~ you’ll want to look up the term “Natural Monopoly” to get a grasp on the legal thinking that led to Federal Regulation of the entire Electromagnetic Spectrum, starting with woodfired stoves all the way up to Terrawatt Lasers.
"fixing the Standard of Measure" has NOTHING to do with regulating items that can be measured by that standard.
Look, if you want to substitute your judgment for that of the Supreme Court
To which "judgment of the Supreme Court" do you refer?
http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/mediahistory/mhmjour2-2.htm ~ just for you. Herbert Hoover regulated radio ~ following Progressive standards ~ means the GD Commies did it, so now you know why the public let Roosevelt take over. As you read through that piece youll notice the use of the term technology and the limitations it had. Earlier there was no radio, but as soon as they got a grasp of how it worked, it was pretty obvious radio didnt stop at the state line ~ youll want to look up the term Natural Monopoly to get a grasp on the legal thinking that led to Federal Regulation of the entire Electromagnetic Spectrum, starting with woodfired stoves all the way up to Terrawatt Lasers.
Interesting read - but despite the appearance of the word technology, the article has no bearing on the Congressional power to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures," much less on regulation of items that can be measured by that standard.
The possibilities are endless now that we can actually see, measure, and describe these molecules.
It's rather like the observation that light crosses state lines.
That's neither a weight nor a measure, and thus not encompassed by the Weights and Measures clause. And a search of USSC cases for the phrase "weights and measures" locates only passing references to that clause.
Sorry, you FAIL.
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