To "regulate" commerce does NOT mean to "prohibit" commerce. - TopicsExpress



          

To "regulate" commerce does NOT mean to "prohibit" commerce. “The primary reason for granting Congress the domestic commerce power was to facilitate interstate trade and protect it against the sort of protectionist state trade policies that occurred all too frequently under the Articles of Confederation. These protectionist type laws, “proliferated in the weak economic conditions of the post-Revolutionary period, as states attempted to protect local manufacturers by discriminatory taxing and regulating domestic imports and by restricting access of the states’ vessels into local ports. These measures generated increasing concern about their effect on the national economy and political unity.”
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:19:51 +0000

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