Sometime Extropian list participant David D. Friedman reached different
conclusions in
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/England_18thc./England_18thc.html
which is approximately equal to
"Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century,"
_The_University_of_Chicago_Law_School_Roundtable_ (Spring/Summer 1995)
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It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the
states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal
government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to
feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by
Congress. --- David D. Friedman, _The_Machinery_of_Freedom_
Alan F. Barksdale afbarksd@ingr.com
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