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United States Vs. Lopez

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 26, 1995

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  12. U.S. 549 (1995) October Term, 1994 Syllabus United States V. Lopez
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  13. cl. 3. The Court, through Chief Justice Marshall, first defined the nature of Congress' commerce power in Gibbons v. Ogden
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  14. Clause as a limit on state legislation that discriminated against interstate commerce. See, e. g., Veazie v. Moor
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  15. the province of state governments, and thus were beyond the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause. See Wickard v. Filburn
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  16. Carter v. Carter
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  17. regulation. See, e. g., Shreveport Rate Cases, 234 U. S. 342 (1914). In A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United
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  18. Id., at 548. Two years later, in the watershed case of NLRB v. Jones
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  19. are within Congress' power to regulate. Id., at 37. In United States v. Darby
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  20. Id., at 118. 556 See also United States v. Wrightwood
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  21. In Wickard v. Filburn
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  22. basis existed for concluding that a regulated activity sufficiently affected interstate commerce. See, e. g., Hodel v. Virginia
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  23. Perez v. United
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  24. Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United
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  25. States, 379 U. S. 241 , 252-253 (1964).2 Similarly, in Maryland v. Wirtz
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  26. to enforce. Id., at 196, overruled on other grounds, National League of Cities v. Usery
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  27. U. S. 833 (1976), overruled by Garcia v. San
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  28. quoting Caminetti v. United
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  29. Southern R. Co. v. United
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  30. interstate commerce in order to be within Congress' power to regulate it under the Commerce Clause. Compare Preseault v. ICC
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  31. Heart of Atlanta Motel, supra, and pro- 560 duction and consumption of homegrown wheat, Wickard v. Filburn
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  32. by-case inquiry, that the firearm possession in question affects interstate commerce. For example, in United States v. Bass
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  33. States possess primary authority for defining and enforcing the criminal law.''' Brecht v. Abrahamson
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  34. U. S. 619,635 (1993) (quoting Engle v. Isaac
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  35. see also Screws v. United
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  36. change in the sensitive relation between federal and state criminal jurisdiction.''' United States v. Enmons
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  37. U. S. 396 , 411-412 (1973) (quoting United States v. Bass
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  38. see also United States v. Five
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  39. and indeed even congressional committee findings, regarding effect on interstate commerce, see, e. g., Preseault v. ICC
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  40. accumulated institutional expertise regarding the regulation of firearms through previous enactments. Cf. Fullilove v. Klutznick
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  41. and, through the mechanism of insurance, those costs are spread throughout the population. See United States v. Evans
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  42. Post, at 630. As Chief Justice Marshall stated in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  43. Id., at 405. See also Gibbons v. Ogden
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  44. us to conclude that the Constitution's enumeration of powers does not presuppose something not enumerated, cf. Gibbons v. Ogden
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  45. question whether the congressional power was exclusive, a question reserved by Chief Justice Marshall in Gibbons v. Ogden
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  46. local law or the necessity for the Court to invalidate local law because of the dormant national power. Cooley v. Board
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  47. under Marshall, Taney and Waite (1937) (hereinafter Frankfurter), and difficulties of application persisted, see Leisy v. Hardin
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  48. an effect on interstate commerce. Id., at 16. And in Adair v. United
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  49. E. C. Knight's reliance on the manufacturing-commerce distinction in Standard Oil Co. of N. J. v. United
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  50. The Court likewise rejected the rationale of Adair when it decided, in Texas & New Orleans R. Co. v. Railway
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