Class 5 - Assignment

For Tuesday, we are shifting from discussion of judicial branch power to legislative branch power under the Constitution's commerce clause. Please read textbook pages 207-234 and the majority opinion in U.S. v. Lopez (1995), available at:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1260.ZO.html

In reading the case, focus your attention on the Court's version of the commerce clause history and the "test" it applies to finding an activity falls within interstate commerce.

See you next week!