• The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The clause states that the...
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  • The Dormant Commerce Clause, or Negative Commerce Clause, in American constitutional law, is a legal doctrine that courts in the United States have inferred...
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    Most notably, Clauses 1 (the General Welfare or Taxing and Spending clause), 3 (the Commerce clause), and 18 (The Necessary and Proper clause) have been...
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  • the Commerce Clause.[citation needed] In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court held that the Commerce Clause did...
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    requiring states to enforce federal law. In the 20th century, the Commerce Clause became one of the most frequently-used sources of Congress's power...
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  • United States v. Morrison (category United States Commerce Clause case law)
    powers granted to the US Congress under the Commerce Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Along with United States v. Lopez (1995)...
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  • The Necessary and Proper Clause, also known as the Elastic Clause, is a clause in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution: The Congress...
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  • held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, which is granted to the US Congress by the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, encompasses the power...
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  • adoption of the Import-Export Clause received considerable debate, more so than the Export Clause or the Commerce Clause.: 522–525  The Constitutional...
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  • United States v. Lopez (category United States Commerce Clause case law)
    interstate commerce. It was the first case since 1937 in which the Court held that Congress had exceeded its power under the Commerce Clause. The case...
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    is the power to regulate commerce. Since the early 20th century, the Supreme Court's interpretation of this "Commerce Clause" has, over time, greatly...
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    interstate commerce was affected and that cases weren't going to be thrown out that way. Lopez certainly breathed new life into the Commerce Clause. I think...
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    for the Court regarding the Contract Clause, slavery, the political question doctrine, and the Commerce Clause. He was promoted as a candidate for president...
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    occasionally arisen as an issue in Supreme Court cases that touch on the Commerce Clause. Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution...
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  • Wickard v. Filburn (category United States Commerce Clause case law)
    set a precedent for an expansive reading of the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause for decades to come. The goal of the legal challenge was to end the...
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    thereof". Broad interpretations of this clause and of the Commerce Clause, the enumerated power to regulate commerce, in rulings such as McCulloch v. Maryland...
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  • Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964) The Commerce Clause gives Congress power to force private businesses to abide by Title...
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    founded on different principles. When interpreting the Interstate Commerce Clause, Stevens consistently sided with the federal government. He dissented...
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    Privileges and Immunities Clause and that the New Jersey law regulated interstate commerce in violation of the Commerce Clause. In 1820, the New Jersey...
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  • Contract Clause (see, e.g., Dartmouth College v. Woodward), the Equal Protection Clause (see, e.g., Brown v. Board of Education), or the Commerce Clause of...
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  • Gonzales v. Raich (category United States Commerce Clause case law)
    (2005), was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that, under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Congress may criminalize the production and...
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  • and Spending Clause (which contains provisions known as the General Welfare Clause and the Uniformity Clause), Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United...
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    justice. The Supreme Court under Taft compiled a conservative record in Commerce Clause jurisprudence. This had the practical effect of making it difficult...
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    argument that sex offender registry requirements could be based upon the commerce clause to the United States Constitution. On 25 July 2008, the Alaska Supreme...
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    1930s, struck down an act of Congress as exceeding its power under the Commerce Clause. Rehnquist grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served in the U.S....
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  • Bill of Rights), the right to keep and bear arms, the Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, and/or other federal firearms laws. The Supreme Court...
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  • under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (the Commerce Clause), has been said to have "plenary" power over interstate commerce, this does not always preclude...
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    argued that it was engaged in foreign commerce that was exempt from state regulation under the dormant Commerce Clause doctrine.: 223  In a narrow ruling...
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