Many Americans believe that the federal government can do anything it wants and there's nothing anyone can do about it. (The really sad part is that many Americans see nothing unconstitutional about it.) Our only recourse is to vote out the offenders. (And many would claim that doesn't do any good because we just replace them with more of the same.)hirundo82 wrote:As Justice Thomas said in his dissent to the decision in Raich,If the Federal Government can regulate growing a half-dozen cannabis plants for personal consumption (not because it is interstate commerce, but because it is inextricably bound up with interstate commerce), then Congress' Article I powers -- as expanded by the Necessary and Proper Clause -- have no meaningful limits.
Thomas Jefferson said
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild and government to gain ground.