Commerce Clause
Proper noun
Meaning
Commerce Clause
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(US, law) A clause in the United States Constitution stating that Congress shall have the power "[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
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In April, Law360 published a guest article advising Don’t Sleep on the Dormant Commerce Clause.
Recently, the Commerce Clause was interpreted to include marijuana laws in the Gonzales v. Raich decision.
He also mastered a new set of issues regarding the Commerce Clause and, in a deliberately restrained manner, wrote constitutional decisions that expanded the regulatory powers of both the state and federal governments.
Judicial rulings against attempted use of Congress's Commerce Clause powers continued during the 1930s.
Taft Court membership timeline yes yes yes yes yes yes Jurisprudence further Commerce Clause The Supreme Court, under Taft, posted a conservative record in Commerce Clause jurisprudence.
The expansive interpretation of the Commerce Clause was restrained during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when a laissez-faire attitude dominated the Court.