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.
To: robertpaulsen
I think you missed this part:
Congress are prevented from taxing exports, or giving preference to the ports of one State over another, or obliging vessels bound from one State to clear, enter, or pay duties in another; which restrictions, more clearly than any thing else, prove what the power to regulate commerce among the several States means.
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.
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08/22/2006 12:34:08 PM PDT by
AZRepublican
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