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The Congress shall have power to regulate commerce . . . among the several states.- U.S. Constitution
Ignoring that evidence, the motel's Owner-Lawyer Moreton Rolleston Jr. proceeded to lecture the Justices: "The argument that this law was passed to relieve a burden on interstate commerce is so much hogwash. It was intended to regulate the acts of individuals." If the commerce clause can be...
By contrast, the Court has long permitted Congress to regulate anything that it claims has "a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce." Thus in 1942 (Wickard v. Filburn), the Court upheld the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as applied to a farmer who sowed only 23 acres of wheat mostly...
Arming the Union. The reasoning by which the Court arrived at such state-taming decisions is rooted in the burgeoning nationalization of a country that was first united only by the Articles of Confederation, a compact so loaded in favor of the 13 independent-minded states that Congress could not...
Divided Responsibility. Liaison between the Secret Service and the Dallas police was also faulty. Says the Commission: "At the time of the trip to Dallas, the Secret Service as a matter of practice did not investigate, or cause to be checked, any building located along the motorcade route to be...