BUL 4421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Enumerated Powers, Commerce Clause, Supremacy Clause

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Form on government where states form a union and the sovereign power is divided between national government and various states. Requires states to,afford full faith and credit to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state. Ensures judicial decisions respecting property rights honored and enforced in all states. Government provides checks and balances among three branches: legislative (congress): create laws, executive (president/agencies): enforce laws, judicial (federal courts): interprets laws. Since 1824, gibbons ogden, the supreme court interpreted the commerce clause to,per it congress to regulate both: interstate commerce: two or more states, intrastate commerce: within a state. Grants congress the power to regulate commerce among the several states. Us courts have interpreted this clause to include the negative converse prohibiting states from passing laws that improperly burden or discriminate against interstate commerce. Constitution provides that the constitution laws and treaties of the united states are the supreme law of land.

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