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Taking Back the Commerce Clause in Virginia [Virginia House Rejects Federal Commerce Power, 65-33]
Tenth Amendment Center ^ | 01-26-11 | Michael Boldin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; constitution; donttreadonme; federalism; interstatecommerce; justwannagethigh; mcdonnell; nullification; statesovereignty; statesrights; va; vageneralassembly; virginia
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To: Springfield Reformer

The conerstone of the Obamacare is that insurance is not offered across state lines.


61 posted on 01/26/2011 1:14:10 PM PST by nikos1121 (Praying for the big -24 today and -27 by the end of the month.)
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To: Springfield Reformer

WOuld be a big mistake for Senator to oppose what his state legislature is passing to protect that state, I would presume.

Interesting move on Virginia’s part.


62 posted on 01/26/2011 1:15:12 PM PST by nikos1121 (Praying for the big -24 today and -27 by the end of the month.)
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To: RepublicnotaDemocracy

Hehehe...this would include, of course, any firearms made in, and exclusively sold in the state.


63 posted on 01/26/2011 1:16:18 PM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: ForGod'sSake

Ping


64 posted on 01/26/2011 1:18:50 PM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: government is the beast

Exactly. I often analogize it as the Fed being like a management company hired by the States to oversee the maintenance of the Union.


65 posted on 01/26/2011 1:18:54 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: RepublicnotaDemocracy

You go Virginia~~!!


66 posted on 01/26/2011 1:24:27 PM PST by The Mayor (Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

maryland is the “free state”

i know.

the irony is deafening.

t


67 posted on 01/26/2011 1:25:57 PM PST by teeman8r (carpe carpum. sieze the fish.)
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To: holdonnow

Check this out!


68 posted on 01/26/2011 1:34:02 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: teeman8r
maryland is the “free state” i know. the irony is deafening.

It IS the "free state"... in Orwellian Newspeak.

69 posted on 01/26/2011 1:37:47 PM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: RepublicnotaDemocracy
Viginia winemakers bump!
70 posted on 01/26/2011 1:41:17 PM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: ScottinVA

LOL islamanoma...

i like it... er, its eradication that is...

t


71 posted on 01/26/2011 1:44:12 PM PST by teeman8r (carpe carpum. sieze the fish.)
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To: RepublicnotaDemocracy

It’s going to be very interesting as these kinds of cases wind their way through the federal judiciary and eventually to the Supreme Court. Upholding a few of them would cause a seismic shift in the way Washington does things.


72 posted on 01/26/2011 2:02:20 PM PST by K-Stater
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

I presume you are referring to the illegal War of Northern Aggression - WNA.


73 posted on 01/26/2011 2:03:14 PM PST by TxDas (This above all, to thine ownself be true.)
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To: taxtruth
Can 0bama order an invasion of this insurrectionist state?

It would have to be an armed insurrection. But you're probably being sarcastic.

74 posted on 01/26/2011 2:06:47 PM PST by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: RepublicnotaDemocracy

Lots of hooting and hollering, but what exactly does this piece of legislation actually do for the people of VA?


75 posted on 01/26/2011 2:07:25 PM PST by Realism (Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Mee too, I was born in VA, but consider myself a North Carolinian.
I saw a tin foil hat theory yesterday that said this was the plan all along. Get Americans so angry we take up arms, he declares martial law and declares himself President for life. The military would split, and that would be that.


76 posted on 01/26/2011 2:30:39 PM PST by rikkir (With his background, Obama shouldn't be allowed to serve coffee in the White House!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

No time like the present ; )

Thank you Virginia!!!

May God bless!
Tatt


77 posted on 01/26/2011 2:42:49 PM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
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To: ScottinVA

And with back up from Georgia volunteers who made the trek northward faster than Patton’s troops ; )

Tatt


78 posted on 01/26/2011 2:45:13 PM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
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To: RepublicnotaDemocracy

There is no language in the commerce clause that extends federal power to regulate “the people” as that critical term has been defined by other amendments and case law.


79 posted on 01/26/2011 2:46:44 PM PST by Mechanicos
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To: government is the beast

GMTA


80 posted on 01/26/2011 2:49:04 PM PST by Mechanicos
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