Main Street Capital Access Act

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Deregulatory banking bill within Commerce and Necessary and Proper powers that reduces federal burdens, imposes no rights infringement, expands private and local decision-making, and takes no property without due process.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Regulation of federally chartered and interstate banks falls within Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 Commerce Clause and Clause 18 Necessary and Proper Clause, as banking, mergers, and holding-company acquisitions substantially affect interstate commerce. This bill does not expand federal power; it narrows existing exercises of that power, tailors supervision, and phases in capital rules. No action …
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  No provision restricts speech, religion, press, assembly, petition under the First Amendment, arms under the Second Amendment, or privacy and security under the Fourth Amendment. The bill lessens regulatory burdens, examinations, and reporting, it does not authorize searches, seizures, compelled testimony, or trial deprivations under Amendments Fourth through Eighth. No taking or quartering implic…
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill restricts no personal conduct, speech, belief, labor, or use of property. It expands sovereignty of owners, founders, and rural community banks to form institutions, merge, manage capital, and use reciprocal deposits with less federal pre-approval. The burden on private ordering is reduced, with no compelling-justification test triggered because no new restriction is imposed.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  Under the Tenth Amendment, this bill moves in a decentralizing direction. It reduces federal supervisory burden, tailors regulation to risk profile, raises asset thresholds for Federal Reserve Board approval, lengthens examination cycles, and returns capital, merger, and business-model decisions to private banks, local communities, and states. It does not consolidate decision-making upward; it lea…
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  Under the Fifth Amendment Due Process and Takings Clauses, no property is taken, no fine or fee is imposed without notice and hearing, and no presumption of innocence is bypassed. Raising thresholds for fees and reporting reduces exactions. Phase-in of capital requirements and tailored supervision increase procedural fairness and reduce arbitrary action, satisfying procedural and substantive due p…

Sources: Congress.gov: HR 6955 summary

Main Street Capital Access Act of 2025 – Constitutional Revision

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To increase small business access to capital by reducing regulatory burdens and expanding lending options for community banks and credit unions.

Bipartisan rationale: Democratic priorities: Direct federal support for small businesses, especially in underserved communities, with nondiscrimination requirements and oversight. Republican priorities: State flexibility in design and implementation, protection of state banking authority, no federal preemption, and a sunset clause to limit long-term government expansion.

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