Commerce Clause power to regulate vs. prohibit
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 242 U.S. 311 - James Clark Distilling Company v. Western Maryland Railway Company · 1917Most cited · 540 citing opinions
The power conferred is to regulate, and the very terms of the grant would seem to repel the contention that only prohibition of movement in interstate commerce was embraced. And the cogency of this is manifest since, if the doctrine were applied to those manifold and important subjects of interstate commerce as to which Congress from the beginning has regulated, not prohibited, the existence of government under the Constitution would be no longer possible.
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