You have to suspend basic laws of economics - and the limits of the #Constitution - to require a federal minimum wage. @mmaharrey10th pic.twitter.com/IGr509vA4X
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Commerce Clause
John Marshall, the Commerce Clause and Gibbons v Ogden
While supporters – and opponents – of the monster state often point to 3 New Deal era cases as pivotal for expansion of federal power under the Commerce Clause, it’s important to go even further back, to 1824, and John Marshall’s landmark opinion in...
Interview: Abusing the Commerce Clause
The commerce clause is used to justify federal intrusion into virtually every facet of economic life. But that was not what the founders intended. Suzanne Sherman and I talked about the commerce clause on a recent episode of the Wasatch Report. We talked about what...One of the ways the federal government expands its power is by redefining words in the #constitution @mmaharrey10th pic.twitter.com/TFDrCbh5fU
— TenthAmendmentCenter (@TenthAmendment) August 21, 2020
The Power in a Word
One of the ways the federal government expands its powers is simply by redefining words in the Constitution. One of the ways the federal government expands its power is by redefining words in the #constitution @mmaharrey10th pic.twitter.com/TFDrCbh5fU —...
Four Cases that Expanded the Commerce Clause
Three New Deal-era court cases set the foundation for an expansion of the Commerce Clause far beyond its original, legal meaning. Another from 2005 reaffirmed this and set the stage for even more. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: July 17, 2020...