If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause…

Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers…

— David Limbaugh

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen…

— John Cornyn

It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing,…

— James Madison

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

— Alex Kozinski

The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

— Alex Epstein

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out…

— Michael Kinsley

I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation by adopting…

— Dianne Feinstein

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

— Robert Toombs

The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have…

— James Madison

“I love the Constitution, but it placed ridiculously small limits on the power of the federal government. Taken literally, our total powers include coining…

— Erne Lewis

Political courage requires clarity. The Obama Administration chose the tortured route of arguing the legality of the individual mandate via the interstate commerce clause…

— Joe Klein

“In the case that upheld the second AAA, Wickard v. Filburn, (1942), a farmer had been fined for planting 23 acres of wheat, instead…

— Barry M. Goldwater

The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more…

— Barbara Ann Radnofsky

“The Supreme Court upheld the law in the 2012 decision of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, but not because it believed the…

— Brion T. McClanahan

The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private…

— John Podhoretz