Jay and Luke dive headfirst into the Louisiana Purchase to explore the battle over the Elastic Clause. Jeffersonians opposed several of Hamilton’s policies — from the Bank of the United States to ...

In 2005, the Supreme Court said the federal government's power to "regulate commerce ... among the several states" extends to the tiniest speck of marijuana wherever it may be found, even in the home ...

Mr. Peter Priolo stated that I equated the Constitution being a living document to mean Congress can rewrite the Constitution with the Elastic Clause and assume more and more power (Your Opinion, Sept ...

Congress has used the Constitution’s Commerce Clause to fight prostitution and domestic violence, to break monopolies and to combat segregation — but its biggest test could come over the Obama ...

In particular, Rivkin and Foley cite Gonzales v. Raich, the 2005 case in which the Supreme Court said the Commerce Clause gives the federal government the authority to prosecute people for growing and ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...

In 2005 the Supreme Court said the federal government's power to "regulate commerce…among the several states" extends to the tiniest speck of marijuana wherever it may be found, even in the home of a ...