BUSAD 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jim Crow Laws, Commerce Clause, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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Adopted in 1791 to protect states from national government. Chief state right at the time was power to own slaves. Northern interests won the war and slavery was outlawed in the us. Another major movement which defined the struggles for states" rights. Civil rights act of 1964 which implemented decision in brown and guarantee to civil rights for all people. It was based on commerce clause and the 14th amendment (equal protection of the law) and because discrimination affected interstate commerce. President truman integrated and racially mixed the military in 1948 through executive order. Civil rights movement and the commerce clause. Still did not follow so lawsuits were filed against southern businesses. Katzenback (ollie"s bbq) 1964: ordered food from a supplier who ordered out of state. Used logic of wickard and claimed it was a cumulative effect of all restaurants doing this affected interstate commerce. Congress in regulating interstate commerce is broad and sweeping.
