As for the right of *states* to regulate commerce (admittedly a
different issue), there is a nice account of the circumstances leading
up to Munn v. Illinois in Cronon's NATURE'S METROPOLIS. (It's the
chapter on the grain trade.)
Peter Dorman
When and in what case did the Supreme Court expand the commerce clause of
the Constitution to overrule state regulation of corporations?
-- Jim Cullen
*Gibbons v Ogden* (1824) was the first major case to raise the issue of
the scope of the commerce power and the question of the impact of
When and in what case did the Supreme Court expand the commerce clause of
the Constitution to overrule state regulation of corporations? Can somebody
point me to a good discussion of that issue, particularly as it relates to
the effort to give the World Trade Organization authority to overrule
On Fri, November 14, 1997 at 08:00:01 (-0600) J Cullen writes:
When and in what case did the Supreme Court expand the commerce clause of
the Constitution to overrule state regulation of corporations? Can somebody
point me to a good discussion of that issue, particularly as it relates to
the
