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The Courts and the Commerce Clause: Obliterating Original Intent

By on January 26, 2010 in Constitution, Enumerated Powers, Judiciary

Every piece of federal economic regulation from the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) to all of the 1930s New Deal securities and banking law has been rationalized (made “constitutional”) by reference to the commerce clause.

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