JD Vance's populist plans to break up Big Tech monopolies

DoodleBob, do you know what a "Reply" is? It means that one answers what was posted. I answered and refuted your post by citing Jefferson as the very originator of your assertion that this was a matter of life, liberty, and property. Jefferson was no fan of corporations. Hence, this “reply” of yours is a pompous boilerplate handwave that doesn’t address my reply to you at all.

The question ALWAYS should be: is this with fidelity to the Founders and the bases of life, liberty, and property on which this nation was founded and refined?

There is a difference between individual property and collectively owned property. Earth to DoodleBob: The Constitution starts with "We the People." Corporations are not people; they are "fictitious persons." We'll start there, as you never addressed the blatant corruption in the 14th Amendment I exposited and linked for you.

Now, you might be surprised that I would agree to a degree that the Commerce Clause as originally intended does not apply to a corporate breakup. but not as you would think. The word "regulate" at that time actually meant "to make regular" effectively, 'to proceed without inhibition.' Most of what the Commerce Clause was to address was to prevent tariffs between States, indeed most of Federalist 42 as you cited is about treaty law and FOREIGN commerce, not commerce between the States.

Your problem is that breaking up a corporation does NOT inhibit the conduct of commerce among its several parts; indeed quite the contrary: Breaking up a corporation increases competition with and commerce among its former elements and their new competitors. Hence, breaking up a monopoly makes commerce MORE regular as we saw with the breakup of AT&T.

"Life, liberty, and property"? Break up a corporation and no one dies. Commerce increases with more options for vendors, so there is an increase in liberty, or are you asserting that Google is a champion of liberty, or are they harming the liberty of others by virtue of their acquisition strategies to maintain their monopoly? There is no loss of personal property as the fractions remain.

That makes your "reply" specious.

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