better-dead-than-fed
09-06-2013, 08:56 AM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584404576442440490097046.html?m od=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop
July 14, 2011
... Mr. Marbut isn't basing his pro-gun effort on the Second Amendment, the one that talks about a right to bear arms, but on the 10th, which discusses the limits of federal power.
"This is really about states' rights and federal power rather than gun control," Mr. Marbut says. There is "an emerging awareness by the people of America that the federal government has gone too far," he maintains, "and it's dependent on a really weird interpretation."
He is talking about the 1942 Supreme Court case of Wickard v. Filburn (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17396018701671434685)....
he believes today's Supreme Court could be persuaded to narrow Congress's commerce-regulation authority....
"Clearly, since Wickard, the federal government has gone way beyond" its authority, Mr. Shurtleff says. "We would like to see that rolled back."
Mr. Marbut wants the court to declare that the Wickard case "was wrongly decided, and the whole trail of cases that rely on it were wrongly decided."
Including prohibition of weed. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?414251-Vermont-s-Legislature-Just-Voted-to-Decriminalize-Marijuana&p=5021846&viewfull=1#post5021846)
Related thread: Montana Firearms Freedom Act Overturned by 9th Circuit Court (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?425246-Montana-Firearms-Freedom-Act-Overturned-by-9th-Circuit-Court)
July 14, 2011
... Mr. Marbut isn't basing his pro-gun effort on the Second Amendment, the one that talks about a right to bear arms, but on the 10th, which discusses the limits of federal power.
"This is really about states' rights and federal power rather than gun control," Mr. Marbut says. There is "an emerging awareness by the people of America that the federal government has gone too far," he maintains, "and it's dependent on a really weird interpretation."
He is talking about the 1942 Supreme Court case of Wickard v. Filburn (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17396018701671434685)....
he believes today's Supreme Court could be persuaded to narrow Congress's commerce-regulation authority....
"Clearly, since Wickard, the federal government has gone way beyond" its authority, Mr. Shurtleff says. "We would like to see that rolled back."
Mr. Marbut wants the court to declare that the Wickard case "was wrongly decided, and the whole trail of cases that rely on it were wrongly decided."
Including prohibition of weed. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?414251-Vermont-s-Legislature-Just-Voted-to-Decriminalize-Marijuana&p=5021846&viewfull=1#post5021846)
Related thread: Montana Firearms Freedom Act Overturned by 9th Circuit Court (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?425246-Montana-Firearms-Freedom-Act-Overturned-by-9th-Circuit-Court)