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Although the feds do have the constitutional authority to regulate federal elections (1.4.1), it remains that the feds have no clear constitutional authority to use that power to establish no-fly zones imo, corrections, insights welcome.
In fact, note that political party nominating conventions have little to do with the procedure for nominating a president that the Founding States enumerated in the Constitution.
So although the FAA mandate is a reasonable precaution, I remind patriots that both James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned about the federal government taking advantage of questionable situations to unconstitutionally expand its powers.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
Airspace comes under the interstate commerce clause.
Therefore, the FAA has authority to regulate operations within the national airspace.