POSC 4210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Parens Patriae, Otakars, J. Walter Thompson
10 Mar 2016
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He can"t be prosecuted under the federal debt collections act because he owes money to his ex-spouse, not the government. The use of the channels of interstate commerce: 2. The instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in interstate commerce: 3. Those activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, or substantially affect interstate commerce. Child support is interstate commerce if you are using one of the channels of interstate commerce (buying clothing from other states, etc. ) or sending money to a child in another state. Therefore, child support does qualify as interstate commerce. Having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, or those activities that substantially affect interstate commerce. Congress clearly considered the economic impact of delinquent parents and concluded that the impact of substantially affects interstate commerce. Even local activities may become the subject of national legislation when they are found to be a part of a national problem.
