ConLaw Class 6 – Scope of Federal Powers I

January 31st, 2017

Class 6 – 1/31/17

Scope of Federal Powers I

  • Read Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution (xxxiii – xxxiv).
  • Federalist No. 10 (26-31).
  • The Commerce Clause (124 – 125)
  • Gibbons v. Ogden (126 – 134).
  • Evidence of the meaning of the word “Commerce” (134 – 138)
  • Progressive Era Cases (183 – 185)
  • United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (186 – 191)
  • Champion v. Ames (192 – 198)
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart (198 – 202)

The lecture notes are here.

This is Thomas Gibbons.

This is Aaron Ogden.

Hammer v. Daggenhart concerned the constitutionality of laws prohibiting child labor.

 

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