“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In 1984, George Orwell portrayed in chilling detail how totalitarian governments use the power of language to manipulate the masses. This notion was not unfamiliar to the founders, as James Madison warned that changing definitions of words over time would create “a...
The interstate commerce clause was never intended to be a free pass for the federal government to regulate everything under the sun. But that’s how the government treats it today. That’s because the people let them get away with redefining commerce. View...
Supporters of the monster state justify most federal power under a twisted version of the commerce clause – claiming the power “to regulate Commerce … among the several States” gives them power over pretty much anything and everything. But they’re lying....
Does the Constitution’s Commerce Clause really entitle the federal government to tell us what kind of toilets we can use? Or prescribe our light bulbs? Or force us into government controlled health care? Or tell us we can’t drain a swamp on our own property? Congress...
The power to regulate commerce is not the power for the government to regulate whatever it wants. But that’s how they use it today. How did this happen? They changed the definition of the word commerce. In the founding era, commerce basically meant trade. As Rob...