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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize P... by michaelt on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:36AM (#19225113)
If reading to my children reduces aggregate demand for audiobooks, and therefore could impact interstate market prices, is reading to my children interstate commerce?
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize P... by SerLava on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:12PM (#19228697)
Pretty much.

The current legal definition seems to make the assumption that when the founders sat around writing the constitution, one of them looked up and asked for a nice punchy way to say "the complete domain of reality from the ground to the infinite reaches of the heavens above" and the reply was "oh, just say interstate commerce."

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