Your Weekly Constitutional
Your Weekly Constitutional
Stewart Harris
Roscoe Filburn Had a Farm
59 minutes Posted Jun 8, 2012 at 1:49 pm.
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E-I-E-I-O.
This one's all about a farm. Roscoe Filburn's farm. And about what happened to Roscoe and to the Commerce Clause when Roscoe decided to grow just a little too much wheat.
Here's a hint: the resulting case, Wickard v. Filburn, may just be the linchpin upon which the whole federal health care debate ends up turning.