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To: Rockingham
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.

294 posted on 04/05/2010 2:00:35 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

Did you read the Supreme Court’s commerce clause case law? Or scholarly commentary on the subject?


296 posted on 04/05/2010 2:18:13 PM PDT by Rockingham
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