PSCI 3322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Sherman Antitrust Act, Tenth Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: UT-Dallas
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 3322
• Professor: Champagne Anthony

Document Summary

Gibbons v. ogden: sets up idea that there are two types of commerce. Federal government cannot regulate, interferes with 10th amendment. Substantially affects interstate commerce, congress can regulate it. Gives them broad regulatory power, very john. Most important power today for the federal government is the power to regulate interstate commerce: almost everything is related to interstate commerce, hard to have intrastate products in modern time. What is this congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. Article i, section 8, paragraph 3 - the commerce clause: commerce is intercourse. But not just movement of goods; includes navigation or people; movement of communication. All interaction across state lines: among means commerce not limited to state lines. Can include travel within a state: the whole trip is interstate commerce. Intrastate commerce that affects interstate commerce is interstate commerce: power to regulate. Broad regulatory commerce for congress: congress is supreme.