There’s only ONE Constitutional restriction upon an individual that I know of: the 13th Amendment forbidding keeping a slave. I know of no other constitutional reason for the feds to interfere with an individual, other than an individual’s direct interference with the fed’s constitutional duties.
Probably the greatest political need in our country is the average citizen getting a hold of the Constitution and learning it. This means learning its 1) presumptions, 2) structure, 3) text, and 4) perversions perpetrated by SCOTUS especially since the beginning of the 20th century. Americans need to OWN THEIR Constitution and THEIR freedom. It belongs to THEM, not the feds.
What you touch on is the “perversion” part of learning the Constitution. The big four perversions are
a) “The Incorporation Doctrine” - judicial misapplication of the 14th Amendment giving the feds sweeping powers not contemplated by the ratifiers of the amendment (your post alludes to this I think).
b) The [Interstate] “Commerce Clause” (Art I, Sec 8, Cl 3) astonishingly been expanded by Congress and ratified by SCOTUS to give the feds almost unlimited power over intrastate and local economic activities again, not contemplated by the ratifiers of the Constitution.
c) The “Necessary and Proper Clause” (Art I, Sec 8, Cl 18), originally intended to allow executive enforcement and regulation pursuant to legislation within the scope of the Constitution, the N&P Clause has been expanded beyond constitutional grounds and limits to such an extent that a quasi-fourth branch of government has been created: the Administrative State with behemoth unconstitutional bureaucracies.
d) The power and effect of SCOTUS decisions. Society and the legal community have granted SCOTUS much greater power than what the ratifiers of the Constitution contemplated. Nowhere does the Constitution give SCOTUS power to create national law. SCOTUS is the judicial, not legislative branch, given power to decide INDIVIDUAL CASES and CONTROVERSIES (Art III, Sec 2). Thus SCOTUS decisions, if soundly based on the Constitution, are valid but limited to precedent for like cases. A SCOTUS decision that is deemed unconstitutional should be ignored and nullified by the states and the other federal branches, but not without sound Constitution-based explanation and reasons for such nullification.
This is an action plan to begin the recovery of political freedom in America. The first step is the American People becoming familiar with and owning THEIR Constitution as written and originally understood and intended as outline above, which is the key to THEIR political freedom.
Excellent Post.
Well thought out and on point.
Said it better than I could.