George Washington and the Founding Fathers didn't understand the Constitution? Wild.
I'll lay pretty good odds that those dark-skinned fellas they were owning, didn't think too much of the founders' understanding of the constitution.
A tax is not a regulation, nor does it imply the power to prohibit.
George Washington and the Founding Fathers didn't understand the Constitution? Wild.
This is not responsive to anything I said. You cannot win an argument by just assuming you've done so, and hoping no one notices how full of hot air you are. George Washington et. al. did not prohibit whiskey consumption, they taxed it. Your silly wordplay, that they therefore "prohibited the sale of untaxed whiskey", and therefore prohibition is historically constitutional, or that, therefore, regulating what people may consume is historical constitutional is as hairbrained a threadbare example of the fallacy of the undistributed middle as I have ever seen anyone try, without actually blushing themselves to death.
It is pretty rare that I am actually disgusted with someone here, but you have made it into that rare company. The way you keep starting the same arguments over and over, from the same starting point, as if nothing went before is either brain-damaged, or dishonest rhetoric, apparently intended to win an intellectual battle by crowding up the bandwidth with propaganda, rather than by reasoning incisively and to the point. I only have so much energy to spend with so little intellectual meat to chew on being offered me in return, and you have worn me down. Is it really your intention never, ever to actually follow through on an argument? What an unrewarding approach to reasoning.