Reply #75: For one, preventing monopoly

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certainly comes under the heading of "protect our freedoms" not to mention Article 1, Section 8, regulation of interstate commerce.

As do most of the items listed by the prior poster. To the extent that almost all commerce (exchange of money for goods or services) today involves either international or interstate commerce - a situation that did not hold when the Constitution was written, true, but irrelevant - then without amending to restrict such control, the federal government has power to make laws about almost anything. Since the preamble states the purpose of the Constitution is "to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity", your proposition that it is all about defending the country from foreign aggression seems rather unfounded.