Proposed Constitutional Amendment: Commerce Clause

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The power of Congress to make all laws that are necessary and proper to regulate commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations, shall not be construed to include the power to regulate or prohibit any activity that is confined within a single state regardless of its effects outside the state, whether it employs instrumentalities therefrom, or whether its regulation or prohibition is part of a comprehensive regulatory scheme; but Congress shall have power to regulate harmful emissions between one state and another, and to define and provide for punishment of offenses constituting acts of war or violent insurrection against the United States.


That should take care of all those tree-hugging, scaredy-cat complaints while restoring federalism.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Did a lawyer write that?

First it says Congress can do this. Then it says Congress can't do that. Then it says it can do the other.

Horrible structure.

 

[rightwinger]

The power of Congress to make all laws that are necessary and proper to regulate commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations, shall not be construed to include the power to regulate or prohibit any activity that is confined within a single state regardless of its effects outside the state, whether it employs instrumentalities therefrom, or whether its regulation or prohibition is part of a comprehensive regulatory scheme; but Congress shall have power to regulate harmful emissions between one state and another, and to define and provide for punishment of offenses constituting acts of war or violent insurrection against the United States.


That should take care of all those tree-hugging, scaredy-cat complaints while restoring federalism.

Fancy word salad

Seems to say Congress can't prevent one state from fucking over another state

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Did a lawyer write that?

Yes.

First it says Congress can do this. Then it says Congress can't do that. Then it says it can do the other.

Horrible structure.

It has to be tortured in this fashion because of the all-encompassing interpretation of the Commerce Clause by the SCOTUS. Years of Judicial bullshit demands that we specifically make acceptions that would otherwise not fit within the intent of the amendment.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Seems to say Congress can't prevent one state from fucking over another state

Does it? Explain.

 

[rightwinger]

Seems to say Congress can't prevent one state from fucking over another state

Does it? Explain.

Anything goes in the dog eat dog world of commerce

Why is your amendment needed?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Why is your amendment needed?

If you don't know why this is needed, you don't understand, or you are willfully ignorant of what has been happening for at least the last 100 years. If you understand the history of American Jurisprudence, particularly involving Congress overreaching and usurping the power of the States, you will understand the SCOTUS' deliberate failure to protect the States by interpreting the Commerce Clause in a fashion that renders the 9th and 10th Amendments meaningless.

 

[rightwinger]

Why is your amendment needed?

If you don't know why this is needed, you don't understand, or you are willfully ignorant of what has been happening for at least the last 100 years. If you understand the history of American Jurisprudence, particularly involving Congress overreaching and usurping the power of the States, you will understand the SCOTUS' deliberate failure to protect the States by interpreting the Commerce Clause in a fashion that renders the 9th and 10th Amendments meaningless.

About the answer I expected

If you don't know, you must be stupid
My money says even you don't know what the frack it means
Word salad

 

[NYcarbineer]

The power of Congress to make all laws that are necessary and proper to regulate commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations, shall not be construed to include the power to regulate or prohibit any activity that is confined within a single state regardless of its effects outside the state, whether it employs instrumentalities therefrom, or whether its regulation or prohibition is part of a comprehensive regulatory scheme; but Congress shall have power to regulate harmful emissions between one state and another, and to define and provide for punishment of offenses constituting acts of war or violent insurrection against the United States.


That should take care of all those tree-hugging, scaredy-cat complaints while restoring federalism.

You need a new hobby.