James Madison, the main mind behind most of the US Constitution advised President Jefferson to restrict trading and US liberty serving under President Jefferson in 1807, Madison and Jefferson enacted an embargo on all trade with Britain and France.
The Northern states protested as it hurt their livelihood hard.
James Madison, the main writer of the US constitution.
Think about that for a bit.
Tariffs were used for about 200 years......either by direct payments are protectionism.............Was the primary means of income for the Gov't for a very long time......until the Gov't found a way to screw the people and get more POWER..........now to the point of INSANITY.....
The Enumerated powers escapes you.............as does the meaning of the Federalist papers.
No Madison and Jefferson barred commerce, they did not just put up tarrifs.
Alexander Hamilton was a major writer in the Federalist papers.
I quote:
“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
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― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
Which is under the enumerated powers..........to regulate commerce.....................embargoes are part of that enumerated power................
Again..............they enumerated powers to avoid a powerful central gov't.............it's all over the Federalist papers.....to anyone capable of reading.
The actual writers of the constitution used these powers as I have demonstrated over and over again, do think they thought such powers existed?
Baloney...........you used an example of a enumerated power.
Banning economic activity, as in a lock down.
So you such claim it is an enumerated power then?
Your examples were from foreign gov'ts............did you fall on your head at birth or did it happen later in life?
So you do not think the early founding fathers never imposed domestic restraints on personal liberty?
I think you are forgetting George Washington, the father of the nation crushing the Whiskey Rebellion.
The father of the nation stated you cannot do what ever the fuck you want you slack jawed hicks, there are rules in any civilisation.
And even in virus outbreaks the early republic imposed domestic restrictions.
I refer you to the conservative Cato institute for further details.
If you want to know whether something is unconstitutional, one group you might ask is judges. And in early rounds of litigation, a reasonably clear—and, to many of us, unsurprising—answer is emerging.
www.cato.org
"Bans on assembly, movement, and badly needed economic activity? Citizens of the early Republic went through all these and much more. Churches shut their doors. People were routinely cooped up in their homes — contrary to some recent speculation, there was no general practice of applying restrictions only to the sick. Not long after the adoption of the new Constitution, the nation’s capital of Philadelphia was struck with a deadly outbreak of yellow fever; persons fleeing the city in the direction of places like Baltimore were turned back at gunpoint, while Alexander Hamilton and his wife Eliza, after surviving the illness, had to undergo quarantine at the behest of authorities in Albany, N.Y. whence they had fled."
www.csmonitor.com
