Nuke Weapons, Bacterial agents, deadly Chemicals, Explosives, Toxins, Fissile material, and so forth. It's just astonishing that the founders didn't make explicit listings of all these different things that the Fed Gov has no authority to regulate.
If you don't see a difference between using the Constitution internationally, and nationally, that is your blind spot.
I'm just extrapolating based on your statement that they don't have any authority to regulate such things. But i'm getting mixed thinking from you. You seem to be implying that the feds *DO* have authority to regulate this stuff if it is international in nature, yet following your other statement about nothing being written allowing them to regulate such things, it would seem that nothing written would also apply to International trafficking.
So If you believe the Fed Gov DOES have the authority to regulate this stuff so long as it is international in origin, I have to wonder from whence in the constitution do you see this authority?
Personally, after looking at your home page, I expect you are no friend of freedom or the Constitution. You just seem to like to argue.
Yes, not letting you get away with repeating that Libertarian talking point means I like to argue. I suppose you think that when people say something objectionable, non argumentative people will just shut up and let them get away with it?
Dealing with outside attacks from another country are a different kettle of fish. You know that, but want to obfuscate the issue with meaningless comparison of apples and oranges.
Congress has NO authority to regulate trade that occurs within a State.
/johnny
They did, in the negative. They listed ONLY the things the federal government was to regulate. Don't like it, don't trash the Constitution, change it.
States have laws against all those things, including drugs, and the Fed not only has no authority, it is needless, and grows federal government.
I want to see the Fed Government crushed back into the constitutional box it came it.
/johnny
While nuclear weapons and bacterial agents came later, deadly chemicals, explosives, and toxins were contemporary to the Founders, and being rather learned men of their time I think it reasonable to assume they were familiar with them. But there is no enumerated power authorizing the federal government to assume control of them. They did however include a process for amendment in the Constitution.