You folks lapping at the slop trough of Socialism need to wake up. Here is what turned the Commerce Clause into the Communist Clause:

"[The commerce clause was written] in the horse-and-buggy age ... since that time … we have developed an entirely different philosophy. ... We are interdependent, we are tied in together. And the hope has been that we could, through a period of years, interpret the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution in the light of these new things that
have come to the country. It has been our hope that under the interstate commerce clause we could recognize by legislation and by judicial decision that a harmful practice in one section of the country could be prevented on the theory that it was doing harm to another section of the country. That was why the Congress for a good many years, and most lawyers, have had the thought that in drafting legislation we could depend
on an interpretation that would enlarge the constitutional meaning of interstate commerce to include not only those matters of direct interstate commerce, but also those matters which indirectly affect interstate commerce."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yep the philosophy is communism and it is BS. One form of Tyranny is the same as another. Just because some one has brainwashed you does not mean that I am to quietly go along.

"Expanding the Laws of Admiarlty beyond their ancient limits even within the jurisdiction of a county."

The quote was taken from the Declarations and Resolve compiled by the First Continental Congress 1774. It expresses the expansion of the laws of commerce outside merely regulating commercial interests and applying the laws to common people.

And the ding dong who thinks FDR did not say such a thing did not read the top of the page under the quote that states the quote came from the New York Times not a hearsay comment from a congressman.

There are none so blind that as those who will not see.

I am so thrilled to know that so many scream to the world "Look how stupid I am" because they open heir pie hole and spill the empty words without foundation upon the ears of those of us who inform ourselves. Sam Adams says it best:

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

You can do what you will with your own being, God gave you the right. But He did not give you the right to drag me along with you. In fact He gave me the right to resist that with every part of my being and every faculty that He endowed me with. And if you want to truly push that, and even demand that others use force to impliment your will upon me, I will arange a meeting between you and God so you can discuss it.
Such is the nature of a Republic and Funadmental Liberties.