Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux

The what?

Sweet summer child. No offense, but “‘muh Constitution” was set on a course for irrelevance ever since Marbury v Madison in 1803. The Constitution doesn’t mean what it states, it means what the Supreme Court says it does. Full stop.

More specifically, the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Which has been steadily expanded to give the federal government to broadly regulate ANYTHING if it affects interstate commerce, which banks definitively do.

A quick rundown:

Gibbons v Ogden - 1824 (gets the ball rolling)

Wickard v Filburn - 1942 (feds can stop you from growing produce in your own state even if you’re not going to sell it, because it affects the price of total national supply)

National Federation of Independent Businesses v Sebelius - 2012 (Affordable Health Care Act made constitutional because the Commerce clause applies now even to economic INACTIVITY).

Look, if the Constitution was supposed to ensure limited government with primarily elected legislators controlling it, IT CLEARLY FAILED. Has failed in that for at least a hundred years, and arguably much longer.

Doesn’t mean it’s a bad place to live. But only understanding how the levers of power actually work in the US at the level of an 8th grade civics student is ridiculous.