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Originally Posted by WebSlave
Yes, the government certainly does try to stretch the limits of reason with their definition of "commerce", but there have been occasions where the SCOTUS has exercised some saneness in their decisions. Hopefully putting the federal government on notice that they just do not have carte blanche to use that as a catchall for total control of the populace.
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The one case really has not affected the over wide use of the commerce clause after Filburn to any great degree. I agree that our forefathers never envisioned the sort of power that the Commerce Clause has conferred upon our federal government.
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Originally Posted by WebSlave
coming back to my earlier mentioned concern about federal government control over the internet
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My own feeling is that there is already a lot more unseen control of the internet that one would think.