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Originally Posted by chickentribs
I'm no attorney, but I believe the authority is invoked based on something hindering commerce for the good of society, not to keep said thing from hindering commerce for your corporate donor... So, hippies blocking the highways would be justifiable action against "the weed", Merk Pharmaceuticals dividend split shouldn't be.
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The Constitution doesn't really specify. It just says "Congress shall have Power...To regulate Commerce...among the several States." (Article IV Section 8) I think if you put nine of the men who signed the Constitution on the Supreme Court for this case, they would have ruled 9-0 in the opposite direction, and I too think it's fairly absurd the notion that people growing and smoking pot without it leaving their properties could have any effect on commerce that Congress should have the power to regulate. But obviously there's a lot of room for interpretation there.
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln
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