JocoPack said:
Ground_Chuck said:
JocoPack said:
Unfortunately, Congress believes they can regulate nearly anything via the Commerce Clause. One of the dark spots of the constitution.
It agreed that Congress can regulate the sell of weapons via the Commerce Clause. Its not an issue for serious legal debate.
I thought it just allowed congress to regulate commerce between the states?
Original intent of the Commerce Clause was to make sure regular commerce happened among the states. In other words, one state wouldn't be able to regulate commerce (perhaps tax) another state. The commerce clause didn't give the federal government the right to regulate; rather, to make commerce regular.
You all need to quit reading Supreme Court opinions and start reading original intent documents. The Supreme Court likes to use precedence. That ultimately can take a bad ruling and compound it completely away from original intent. That's what made Scalia a very good justice. He was an originality...
How does the following sound like power given to the federal government?
The
original intent of the Commerce Clause was to make "normal" or "regular"
commerce between the states; thus it was designed to promote trade and exchange not restrict it.
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/01/26/the-courts-and-the-commerce-clause-obliterating-original-intent/
