[BlatherNaut]

Is the power to regulate interstate commerce the power to regulate EVERYTHING that may have any effect - however tangential - upon interstate commerce.

A theoretically limitless chain of implied powers derived from tangential connections, using the Commerce Clause as a fig leaf for tyranny...

Obviously not what the Founders envisioned.

[allmendream]

Indeed - they try to spin that straw into gold every time.

The Nacy Pelosi Constitution would only have one clause in Article I, because the power to regulate interstate commerce is apparently a blank check for power on every aspect of our lives.

Our founders thought the power to regulate interstate commerce meant the power to regulate commerce between the States - not to regulate all activity or non activity that may have an effect upon interstate commerce.

Intrastate commerce has an effect upon interstate commerce - and yet regulation of intrastate commerce was, by omission, directly NOT given to Congress.