...then Congress could regulate that type of transaction.14 Importantly, the unanimous Court also noted, "If the commerce clause were construed to reach all...would embrace practically all the activities of the people."15 In 1936, in Carter v. Carter Coal Company, the Supreme Court ruled that another piece of...

...interstate commerce is merely indirect, such transactions remain within the domain of state power. If the commerce clause were construed to reach all...State over its domestic concerns would exist only by sufferance of the federal government. Indeed, on such a theory, even the development of the State's...

...advertising. The Court warned that, if Congress could regulate enterprises that had only an indirect effect on commerce, "the federal authority would embrace practically...State over its domestic concerns would exist only by sufferance of the federal government." 4 " Although the Court's interpretation of the commerce clause...

...transactions remain within the domain of state power," rather than national power under the commerce clause. "If the commerce clause were construed to reach all...transactions which could be said to have an indirect effect on interstate commerce," the Court warned, "the federal authority would embrace practically all of...

...which is now the test, it is diff1cult to see what limitations exist upon federal regulatory power. 'If the commerce clause were construed to reach all...enterprises and transactions which could be said to have an ... effect upon interstate commerce, 1 Ibid, at 118. 2 Kirschbaum Co. v. Walling, 316 US 517 (1942)....