re: #78 WindUpBird

So why is it when I type “before 1937” +constitution into google, all I get is libertarian schlock?

Go back to Reason magazine, dude, we aren’t buying

The 1937 Wickard decision, something to do with wheat and the interstate commerce clause, really upsets laissez-faire libertarian types, because it made things that happen within state lines “interstate” by virtue of how they affect national aggregates.

(oddly, they don’t mind that the interstate transportation clause was similarly broadened by an 1804 decision about the Erie Canal, which doesn’t cross any state lines).