[tacticalogic]

Not remotely did the Framers intend that the clause would be converted from a shield against state abuse--its use in the first great Commerce Clause case, Gibbons v. Ogden -- into a sword, enabling Congress, through regulation, to try to bring about all manner of social and economic ends.

Inconvenient truth.

[robertpaulsen]

Another inconvenient truth is that the Founding Fathers never intended the BOR to apply to the states. So?

I'm sure there were lots of things the Founding Fathers never intended --freed slaves for one. So?

Is the author suggesting that we revert back to the Constitution of 1789, since that is the ONLY constitution the Founding Fathers INTENDED.