Reply #28: That's a terrible example.

[girl gone mad]

The Militia Act was dependent on the Militia Clause, not the Commerce Clause. Congress never enforced or intended to enforce the Militia Act at the federal level. It was solely created to help states standardize their local militias

What makes this example even worse is the Act's legacy of complete failure. Why choose as your legal "precedent" a long since repealed artifact of history which provides so much fertile ground for critics of a federal mandate, with its worst case scenarios exceeded at just about every level?