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by zizee 524 days ago
Wasn't the federal government of the US formed with a very narrow mandate, and then ratcheted up control with the the innocuous sounding Interstate Commerce clause?

Disclaimer: I am neither American, nor very educated about what I just wrote.

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To a first approximation of US history: yes.

Also in the last 100 years via the Supreme Court's primacy.