Federal legislative powers

Question 1

Commerce power: Congress may regulate (3 things)

Answer 1

1) channels of interstate commerce (routes that commerce travels thru: highways, airwaves)
2) persons and instrumentalities in interstate commerce (cars, radio and tv stations)
3) activities that have a substantial effect on interstate commerce (labor strikes in multistate industries)

Question 2

Commerce power: Congress CAN’T compel persons to..

Answer 2

engage unwillingly in interstate commercial activity

Question 3

Commerce power: Local (not interstate) activity: determine whether it is commonly understood as…

Answer 3

economic or commercial in character

Question 4

Commerce power: if local (not interstate) activity is commonly understood as economic or commercial in nature, regulation is likely constitutional given…

Answer 4

cumulative effect analysis (cum effect of all such economic activities as a class have substantial effect)