Science & Government Funding
The Constitution is a good document, as almost all will agree. It was created such that the power of the government was severely limited, since liberty was once considered a virtue in America. As a lawyer, learning about the Constitution has always kept my attention, but the day I read the cases about the Commerce Clause was the day I understood that the document has been turned from one of limiting government power (in this case, regulating only trade between states such that one state does not become far more powerful than another) to one of its never-ending entitlement to expand power (in the Commerce Clause, now giving the government the ability to regulate ANY economic activity that could affect the system in the aggregate, that is, the old “what if everyone did that?” argument). Here is a basic breakdown of the Commerce Clause. You tell me who sounds more reasonable…