Justice Clarence Thomas Quote

"If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything ... quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States."

by:	Justice Clarence Thomas (1948- ) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Source:	dissenting in Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), with respect to federal regulation of marijuana that had never been sold, had never crossed state lines, and had no effect on the national market
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Categories:	Constitution, Power, Usurpation
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Along with OSHA, the EPA, and a host of other bureaus, they can and do regulate nearly everything now.  -- jim k, Austin, Tx      1
The original purpose of the Commerce Clause in the Constitution was to prevent States from putting tariffs on goods from other States. It is now used to justify national programs and legislation to force any State and all people to do as Washington says.  -- E Archer, NYC      1
Just another aspect of the Constitution that has been twisted until it was just another tool of control and extortion.  -- J Carlton, Calgary      2
The reasonable observe, in this specific address in the utilization of the commerce clause preventive actions being inforced on a specific targeted poison, specifically majuana, trying to be ingested into the national social organ and organization. This clause is in effect voicing the challenge to the vast favoring practicioners of this detrimental substance, we (the reasonable) don't want this marijuana near, we don't want marijuana far, we don't want marijuana at all.  -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown      1
The de jure Constitution was to be a limitation on servants actions to legislate, judge and execute at "the laws of nature and of nature's God" (Declaration of Independence) The entirety of that limiting concept of law and justice exists no where in the world today. The occupying statist theocracy infesting this land regulates (from the executive, legislature and judicial bench) without any regard to the Constitution, nature's law or justice.  -- Mike, Norwalk      1

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