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To: tacticalogic
That meaning has been supplanted with the more recent definition, "to control or exercise authority over" with respect to Article 1 Section 8, and has been used to give Congress a virtual blank check under the Commerce Clause.

There are several remedies for this, any time the people are so inclined.

64 posted on 04/05/2002 8:45:10 AM PST by Huck
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To: Huck
There are several remedies for this, any time the people are so inclined.

True enough, but the fact that it needs to be remedied indicates there is something fundamentally wrong with the way the system is working.

65 posted on 04/05/2002 8:49:48 AM PST by tacticalogic
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