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To: LincolnDefender
Found the Marshall quote.

How about something a little more contemporary:

"If we wish to be true to [the] Constitution . . . ,our Commerce Clause's boundaries simply cannot be 'defined' as being 'commensurate with the national needs' or self- consciously intended to let the Federal Government 'defend itself against economic forces that Congress decrees inimical or destructive of the national economy.' Such a formulation of federal power is no test at all: it is a blank check."

-Justice Clarence Thomas

94 posted on 02/01/2002 3:42:44 PM PST by tacticalogic
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