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.