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To: AZRepublican
"federalism is concerned with the liberty of individuals to self-govern themselves"

Unless that self-governance interferes with interstate commerce that Congress is regulating. A private pilot flying from one part of the state to another is regulated by the FAA when his flying interferes with the interstate airline traffic that Congress is constitutionally regulating.

Unless you can argue that the federal government has no business regulating purely intrastate activities.

9 posted on 08/22/2006 12:14:23 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
I think you missed this part: That pretty much proves Congress was never given the consent in regards to intrastate regulation. FAA regulations have more to do with safty then with another state imposing duties on another states imports. If it is a matter of safty than every state can impose universal safty regulations within its limits like any other country. Don't need a lawless congress for that.
11 posted on 08/22/2006 12:34:08 PM PDT by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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