The Commerce Power

• Constitutional Foundation of Commerce Power



• Commerce and Constitutional Convention



• Marshal Defines Commerce (Gibbons v. Ogden 1824)



• The Shreveport Doctrine



• Manufacturing and Direct Effects on Interstate Commerce



• The Stream of Commerce Doctrine



• The Supreme Court and New Deal



• The Depression and Political Change



• The Court Attack the New Deal



• The Court Packing Plan



• Consolidating the New Interpretation of the Commerce Power



• Regulating Commerce as federal Police Power

 

Important Cases

• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• Houston, E. & W. Texas Railway Co. v. United States (1914)
• United State v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)
• Swift Company v. United States (1905)
• Carter v. Carter Coal Company (1936)
• United States v. Lopez (1995)
• City of Boerne, Texas v. Flores (1997)
• Printz v. United States (1997)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
• Katzenbach v. McClung (1964)
• United States v. Gambino (1978)