POS2041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Enumerated Powers, Commerce Clause, Agricultural Adjustment Act
17 Aug 2020
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Filburn was a small farmer in ohio who harvested nearly 12 acres of wheat above his allotment under the agricultural adjustment act of 1938. Like many a farmer before him, he grew wheat for consumption on his own farm. The law, intended to stabilize wheat prices, was part of a system of top-down management and central planning that president franklin d. roosevelt"s brain trust and a compliant congress sought to impose on the national economy. He argued that the extra wheat that he had produced in violation of the law had been used for his own use and thus had no effect on interstate commerce, since it never had been on the market. In his view, this meant that he had not violated the law because the additional wheat was not subject to regulation under the commerce clause: constitutional question. Whether the act violated the commerce clause: conclusion.
