In 1984, George Orwell portrayed in chilling detail how totalitarian governments use the power of language to manipulate the masses. This notion was not unfamiliar to the founders, as James Madison warned that changing definitions of words over time would create “a metamorphosis” that would destroy the original limitations of the Constitution.
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The interstate commerce clause was never intended to be a free pass for the federal government to regulate everything under the sun.
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Supporters of the monster state justify most federal power under a twisted version of the commerce clause - claiming the power “to regulate Commerce ... among the several States” gives them power over pretty much anything and everything. But they’re lying.
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When the American people debated whether to approve the Constitution, the subject of the Commerce Clause came up. What did they say about it? A new article answers those questions.
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But as they always seem to do -- the federal government took this relatively limited power and ran with it.
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I have asserted that OSHA is an unconstitutional federal agency. I've gotten some pushback from folks who say it is authorized by the "commerce clause." But this is a complete misunderstanding of the meaning of the word "commerce" in the Constitution.
The post OSHA Is Not Regulating “Commerce” first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Yesterday, the imperial “House of Representatives” continued its attack on the 10th Amendment and the entire Constitutional structure by easily passing the “protect and serve act.” Overall, just 35 House members voted against the bill (H.R. 5698). Using a dangerously expansive view of the “interstate commerce clause,” they created a new federal crime. If passed,…
While the federal government has some authority to regulate electricity flowing across state lines under the commerce clause, the federal government has seized much more power than it was legitimately delegated. As I reported earlier, on Sept. 28, 2017, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry proposed a new rulemaking to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).…
A proposal to expand federal regulation of electric power rates is largely unconstitutional. On Sept. 28, 2017, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz proposed new rulemaking to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Under the authority granted the secretary under the Department of Energy Organization Act, RM18-1-000, he proposes that the FERC should use…
Supporters of the monster state want you to believe the feds can do just about anything they want under the commerce clause.