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Constitutional Law

The Commerce Clause

3 case briefs on the commerce clause in Constitutional Law, each with the citation in the book’s form. All Constitutional Law briefs

  • Wickard v. Filburn

    Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942).

    Does the commerce power let Congress apply a wheat marketing quota and penalty to wheat that a farmer grows not for sale but wholly for consumption on his own farm?

    Supreme Court of the United States

  • United States v. Lopez

    United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995).

    Does the Commerce Clause give Congress the power to make it a federal crime to possess a gun in a local school zone, when the statute regulates no commercial activity and requires no connection to interstate commerce?

    Supreme Court of the United States

  • United States v. Morrison

    United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000).

    Does the Commerce Clause give Congress power to enact §13981's civil remedy as a regulation of activity that substantially affects interstate commerce, when the remedy reaches gender-motivated crimes of violence wherever they occur?

    Supreme Court of the United States