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Originally Posted by tomgoodman
This is the third poster who has recently asserted that FAA regulation is inherently unconstitutional...or at least the third username.
Further explanation of the Commerce Clause will probably do no good.
The Commerce Clause is not an expansive power delegated to the federal government. It is actually a lot more humble than people have construed it to be. The Commerce Clause, when it was written, was designed to "make commerce regular" in other words turning all of the states in to a free trade zone so that tariffs couldn't be imposed on people or goods going from Virginia to New Hampshire for instance.
The word "regulate" at the time meant "to make regular" although that meaning is lost today.