BSLW1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Equal Protection Clause, Commerce Clause, Rational Basis Review
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Chapter 4: the constitution as the foundation of the legal environment. The constitution of the united states establishes the structure and powers of the government but also the limitations on those powers. The constitution forms the foundation of our legal environment: the us constitution and the federal system. C. they are still barred from regulating after deregulation. Congress can regulate manufacturing, agriculture, mining, stock exchanges, insurance, loan sharking, monopolies, and conspiracies in restraint of trade: the commerce clause today. So long as the federal regulation relates to economic and commercial activity it is constitutional ii. i. ii. i. State regulations designed to advance local interests may conflict with the commerce clause regulation is invalid: financial powers, the taxing power (borrow) Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the united.
