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Can you explain to me how this does not include freedom to come to agreement with others?

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That is a fundamental misstatement of the Constitutional position.

The question isn't whether people can make contracts. It is whether the act of "making a contract" nullifies all federal regulatory authority under the Commerce Clause.

According to ACers, it does.
According to everyone else on planet earth, it doesn't.


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Ok, good, that's all I was looking for.

I'm going to say it does because subjectively I think that part of the constitution is FAR more important than the interstate commerce clause (although the interstate commerce clause has been used to death). I think if you'd told the writers of the constitution that they could only keep one of the liberty clause, or the interstate commerce clause, I'm guessing they'd have kept the liberty clause.

What happens if you run your business only in a certain state, shouldn't you then definitely be exempt from all labor laws?