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Your reading of the historical and legal record is selective and tendentious. I have no desire to make the commerce clause into one thing or another. I do see considerable misinformation about the commerce clause, mostly cast about by non lawyers who see a restrictive view as the magic answer to their pet concern.

Obamacare may fail due to the limitation on the commerce clause stated in Gonzales v. Lopez.

Your reading of the historical and legal record is selective and tendentious.

I read everything I could find that was either from the Founders or someone in a postition the have talked to them personally and speak authitatively on the subject. I compared that to what the end result of what 220 years of federal commerce clause jurisprudence has wrought and I find them to be substantially in disagreement.

I made a conscious effort to disregard and pre-conceived notions about what terms like "commerce" or "regulate" mean today, and measured as nearly as I could our current laws against what those terms meant in common usage then.

The Constitution was not written to be the exclusive domain of lawyers. I don't need you to "fill in the blanks", for me. If you can provide objective, documentary evidence that anything I have posted is in error, please do so. I'll gladly correct anything that is not accurate.