> The cite is Wickard v. Filburn 317 U.S. 111 (1942)

Here's some quotes:

Justice Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court...

"It is urged that under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution ...
Congress does not possess the power it has in this instance sought to
exercise. The question would merit little consideration since our decision
in _US v. Darby_, sustaining the federal power to regulate production of
goods for commmerce, except for the fact that this Act extends federal
regulation to production not intended in any part for commerce but wholly
for consumption on the farm."

"But if we assume that it is never marketed, it supplies a need of the man
who grew it which would otherwise be reflected by purchases in the open
market. Home-grown wheat in this sense competes with wheat in commerce.
The stimulation of commerce is a use of the regulatory function quite as
definitely as prohibitions or restrictions thereon. This record leaves us
in no doubt that Congress may properly have considered that wheat consumed
on the farm where grown, if wholly outside the scheme of regulation, would
have a substantial effect in defeating and obstructing its purpose to
stmulate trade therein at increased prices."

This is in sad contrast to:

"In a country whose constitution is derived from the will of the
people, . . . the laws are consequently so formed and administered as
to bear with equal weight and favor on all, restraining no man in the
pursuits of honest industry, and securing to every one the property
which that acquires" (Thomas Jefferson, 1806 State of the Union)

"Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men,
 yet every man has a property in his own person: this nobody has any
 right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his
 hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out
 of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath
 mixed his labour with, and joined it to something that it is his
 own, and thereby makes it his property." (John Locke)

"No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law" 5th amendment

_Wickard v. Filburn_ has never been overturned. It needs to be exposed
more. It essentially repeals the right to property and liberty guaranteed
in the 5th amendment, as well as any other right which could possibly
affect commerce in any way (hmm that's all of them).
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