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  • FR Poll Thread: Does the Interstate Commerce Clause authorize prohibition of drugs and firearms?

    11/03/2005 2:24:08 PM PST · by inquest · 3,021 replies · 16,012+ views
    Free Republic ^ | 11-3-05
    There's a new poll up on the side. Do you think the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution authorizes federal laws against narcotics and firearms? Now lest everyone forget, this isn't asking whether you personally agree with such laws. It's about whether your honest reading of the Constitution can justify them. While you're thinking it over, it might help to reflect on what James Madison had to say about federal power over interstate commerce:Being in the same terms with the power over foreign commerce, the same extent, if taken literally, would belong to it. Yet it is very certain that...