We’re heading for economic dictatorship

The Telegraph ^ | 11/17/2012 | Janet Daley

[Cronos]

huh?

[cripplecreek]

Wickard v. Filburn

Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), was a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the power of the federal government to regulate economic activity.

A farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for on-farm consumption. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to drive up wheat prices during the Great Depression, and Filburn was growing more than the limits permitted. Filburn was ordered to destroy his crops and pay a fine, even though he was producing the excess wheat for his own use and had no intention of selling it.

The Supreme Court interpreted the United States Constitution's Commerce Clause under Article 1 Section 8, which permits the United States Congress "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes". The Court decided that Filburn's wheat growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for chicken feed on the open market, and because wheat was traded nationally, Filburn's production of more wheat than he was allotted was affecting interstate commerce. Thus, Filburn's production could be regulated by the federal government.

[Jacquerie]

Obamacare, Wickard, and the entire evil family of commerce clause abuse were rejected by our Framers at the Constitutional Convention.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2741806/posts

[Graewoulf]

Obamanation Communism File.

[cripplecreek]

Trade restrictions were one of the primary causes of the American revolution. All products had to go through British trade channels and all thing were taxed even if they were traded from one colony to another.

I love Franklin's final answer when being questioned by the house of commons in 1766.

Q. What used to be the pride of the Americans ?

A. To indulge in the fashions and manufactures of G. Britain.

Q. What is now their pride ?

A. To wear their old cloaths over again, till they can make new ones.

The Examination of Doctor Franklin, before an August Assembly, relating to the Repeal of the Stamp-Act, &c.