Posted on 01/26/2011 11:55:38 AM PST by RepublicnotaDemocracy
Today, the Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed House Bill 1438 (HB1438), the Intrastate Commerce Act. The bill, “Provides that all goods produced or manufactured within the Commonwealth, when such goods are held, retained, or maintained in the Commonwealth, shall not be subject to federal law, federal regulation, or the constitutional power of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce.”
The vote was 65-33.
For decades, using a tortured definition of “interstate commerce,” Congress has claimed the authority to regulate, control, ban, or mandate virtually everything – from wheat grown on one’s own land for personal consumption, to weed grown in an individual’s own home for the same purpose, to guns manufactured, sold and kept in state boundaries, and everything in between. And, unfortunately, the Supreme Court has largely condoned and even encouraged such reprehensible legislative behavior.
But today, Virginia is once again leading the way in saying “Back Off” to the feds – by standing up for the Constitution as the founders gave it to us.
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Jaw-on-Floor Cool. I used to live in VA. I’m in IL now. Needless to say, what a contrast!
Here we go!!!!!!
VA is really on a roll, isn’t it? Do you have a list of who voted and how ?
Awesome The Commerce Clause was NEVER intended to affect everything. Just the fiction of that “living, breathing Constitution” (i.e. what liberals want it to mean)
We’ll see how long THAT lasts...
Do you move from the long line to the short line at the grocery store too, just to wait longer? I’m thinking Murphy’s Law here.
Hurrah Virginia! Home of our fore-father Thomas Jefferson. Can we return to proper limited (esp. Federal) government.
Can 0bama order an invasion of this insurrectionist state?
Since insurance cannot be sold, except for intra-state, this will have an amusing effect.
As long as "WE THE PEOPLE" stand-up and support it.
Can 0bama order an invasion of this insurrectionist state?
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lol! I’ve been known to do that. :)
Good for Virginia!!
Let me first say that I support the intended purpose of this bill.
But, if tested, the SCOTUS will shoot this one down. They’ll claim that the state does not have the ability the keep such things physically within its borders and that the federal government must therefore have the authority.
So what.
Now here’s a cause to be a rebel for!
/s
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