{"id":6774,"date":"2010-08-26T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T20:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2010-08-26T17:50:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T21:50:36","slug":"the-commerce-clause-and-the-erosion-of-american-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6774\/the-commerce-clause-and-the-erosion-of-american-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commerce Clause and the Erosion of American Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a longtime fan of the video work done by our friends over at Reason, I have to admit astonishment at a video that surpasses even their usually high standards.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest from the West Coast libertarians on how an expansive judicial interpretation of the Commerce Clause has become a blank check to Congress (skeptics take note: Erwin Chemerinsky, the UC-Irvine Law School dean featured here is not a liberal straw man dug up for the purposes of this video. He&#8217;s a highly regarded intellectual on the legal left &#8212; which ought to make his closing comments even more disturbing).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6SDf5_Thqsk\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6SDf5_Thqsk\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a longtime fan of the video work done by our friends over at Reason, I have to admit astonishment at a video that surpasses even their usually high standards. Check out the latest from the West Coast libertarians on how an expansive judicial interpretation of the Commerce Clause has become a blank check to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[602,593,144,765,1770,1357,225,92],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-government","tag-commerce-clause","tag-constitution","tag-erwin-chemerinsky","tag-interstate-commerce","tag-john-eastman","tag-reason","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6782,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions\/6782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}