Now how could I misunderstand anything he posts? Ha Ha Ha

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We have never, excepting Alcohol Probation, reduced any Individual Rights because of the Passions of the Day.

Tobacco, helmets for cyclists, seat belts in cars, drugs, I disagree.
Frankly I do agree with these restrictions.

This seems to be where the current disagreement started, and it appears to have been a due to a misunderstanding. Clyde meant that there was any restriction in the U.S. Constitution of personal liberties of anything except alcohol usage, which was of course soon repealed. All of these examples were outside the Constitution and had nothing to do with it so are irrelevant.

(Of course I'm sure some ugly-minded people have claimed that the 13th was a restriction of their right to own other humans, but of course as that amendment affirmed vastly more rights than it took away, I discount them. :^p)

Well, commerce is regulated by the commerce clause, incomes are taxed by amendment, immigration is controlled by it, conscription is permitted by it, eminent domain is allowed by it, I could go on. People forget these things apply to natural people not just to person corporations. Even if Clyde meant a single line item activity, he would still be wrong as treason is prohibited.