But, but.... Interstate Commerce!
Thanks for reply MileHi.
Please bear in mind that when the Founding States drafted the Commerce Clause (1.8.3) they had also decided that only state lawmakers would have the power to vote for the state’s federal senators (1.3.1), thus giving state legislatures their own voice in Congress.
In other words, it was the Senate’s job to kill House bills that not only steal state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So patriots need to support Trump in leading the states to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A), corrupt, state sovereignty-ignoring senators now using 17A as a license to ignore the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, effectively repealing the whole Constitution by doing so.