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Thank you We sneak man here's your smoke too Sure

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brought to you by interstate trade the federal market for

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your rights of way All right In which of the

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following cases did the supreme court assert the federal government's

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power to regulate interstate trade and hear the potential answers

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You get some good ones here Well the constitution gives

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the federal government the power to regulate interstate commerce which

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refers to trade between states or trade that affects the

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national economy Like when the state of california exports more

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than eighty percent of its almonds overseas Pretty nutty right

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All right Did the supreme court assert the federal government's

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power to regulate the interstate trade in a marbury versus

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madison Well m v m wasn't about regulating trade It

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was about regulating whether or not supreme court could compel

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an official the hand over political appointments Chief justice john

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marshall decided his band of judges couldn't actually do that

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and the court struck down part of the judiciary act

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of seventeen eighty nine the first time the supremes ruled

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a national lot of the unconstitutional did the supreme court

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first to certain federal government's ability to regulate interstate trade

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In bee little bee marine well l v b was

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in fact about trade but it had more to do

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with disagreements between how the president and congress imposed restrictions

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on trade and well really anything else after the x

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y z affair when french diplomats demanded bribes from u

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s officials before entering into negotiations between the two countries

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john adams wanted to retaliate against france's sleight of ah

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hand So congress passed a law allowing the navy to

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seize us ship sailing to a french port But adam's

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ordered the navy to seize ships sailing from f french

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port as well The supreme court found that executive action

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to be unconstitutional telling john adams that well he couldn't

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really go both ways If the supreme court deal with

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interstate trade in see fletcher v peck will fletcher v

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peck was more about the validity of contracts than of

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interstate trade After georgia lawmakers repeal the yazoo land act

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Fletcher and peck whose land was seized after the law

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was invalidated took their case all the way to the

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supreme court Well the supreme court ruled that the repeal

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was unconstitutional since it jeopardized the sanctity of the constitution's

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Contract clause what about a mcauliffe v maryland Mccullough femoral

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and banked on a controversy over the implied powers of

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congress The state of maryland imposed taxes on a u

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s national bank which we can imagine congress was none

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too pleased with and supreme court ended up ruling that

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congress not only had the ability to set up a

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bank but also that maryland state law was secondary to

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any federal legislation This particular case didn't really trade on

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issues of interstate trade which means the supreme court asserted

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the federal government's power to regulate interstate trade in d

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gibbons be ogden well gibbons and ogden were at loggerheads

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over who held the license to operate a steamboat between

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new jersey and new york ogden claimed he had first

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did since he purchased his license from the state of

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new york years earlier Givens though obtained his rite of

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passage from the u s congress the big cheeses Well

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in a watershed decision the supreme court declared that gibbons

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had sailed to victory saying that the u s had

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authority over states when it came to regulating interstate commerce

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So d is the correct answer and to this day

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the power to regulate interstate commerce remains an important trick

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of the trade for the u s government's economic agenda

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