There are two key Supreme Court cases that dramatically broadened the Constitutional provision that allows Congress to regulate “interstate commerce”: Wickard v. Filburn, a 1942 case in which the Supreme Court absurdly ruled that a man growing wheat to feed his chickens was conducting interstate commerce, even though he had no intention to sell it; and Gonzales v. Raich, a similarly suspect 2005 case in which the Court agreed that the Commerce Clause allowed Congress to regulate the ability of a man to grow marijuana in his own home for his own use.
Why can't these bastards just leave us alone? Oh, I know: they're fascists and to fascists, power not exercised is a net dead weight loss to them. So all power must be gathered to the center and then handed back - "devolved" in policyspeak - to the states or the people. This of course is the exact opposite of the the plain reading of the Tenth Amendment. But never mind, they're experts, you see.
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