[rahbert]

The findings in Wickard, Lopez, Stewart all point to an
unenunciated Federal power to elevate private posession of anything to an act of interstate commerce. I am trying to
think of something that the Feds could not by fiat promote
possession of to a Federally regulated act were they of a mind to.

[hoosierham]

The interstate commerce clause and the general welfare clause have been used to justify anything Congress or the federal agaencies want to regulate,tax,or outlaw.

Texas violated the peace treaty with Mexico by giving up their Texas sovereignity and becoming just another one of the United States.

The Constitution that replaced the Articles of Confederation effectively destroyed state power on paper;it just took a civil war for the federals to make that point.