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Commerce Clause

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

commerce clause


often cap both Cs
: a clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that empowers Congress to regulate interstate commerce and commerce with foreign countries and that forms the constitutional basis for much federal regulation see also Article I of the Constitution in the back matter




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