[precisionshootist]

I think what Scalia is saying is that he made a mistake. He got sidetracked thinking this is about growing dope so we must give the government the power to regulate it. He used Wickard to justify his personal feelings. Big Mistake!

All this aside I have a better idea. It's time for a Constitutional Convention and an amendment that ELIMINATES the commerce clause altogether. I have yet to hear a legitimate argument as to why the federal government currently needs any authority over commerce between states. This is one area where the country has truly changed. In the days of ratification of the constitution a central regulatory authority was needed between the newly minted republic. Today, we live not only in an interstate market but a world market and markets are best left to regulate themselves. The commerce clause is simply not needed and is one of the single greatest destroyers of our liberty. Find me someone arguing for the commerce clause and I will show you a big government statist.

My Opinion: We need to address several key areas by convention. 1. The commerce clause, either eliminate or limit so strictly as to be useless for the expansion of government power. 2. Term Limits for all federal government offices in all branches. Possibly even including federal judges. 3. Balanced budget amendment.

My opinion is it's time for the commerce clause to go but it will take a convention of the states to do this. Have no fear a CC only proposes amendments that the congress will NEVER put to a vote. This country is mostly made up of red states. This is a fight the libs can't win and they know it. We can regain our liberty and again live free without a violent revolution. Our situation today is the very reason the framers included the Constitutional Convention in our founding documents.

[John Valentine]

The Commerce Clause had one purpose, and it remains: to prevent the States from erecting tariff and other trade barriers between and among them.

Maybe the clause could be re-written for today’s illiterates, or maybe we could as a Nation insist on better, balanced, and complete education.

At the moment we stand before the entire world as the people who elected a poseur, fake, inauthentic, unqualified, and un-American as out President. As far as I am concerned this is an indictment of our entire populace. The American people should have risen up as one as soon as this knave poked his head up out of the toilet of his birth.