The Commerce Clause has frequently been litigated before the Supreme Court, perhaps more often than another provision of the Structural Constitution. Professor Michael McConnell gives an overview of some of the key cases that have determined the scope of the power of the federal government under the Commerce Clause, including Gibbons v. Ogden, United States v. Darby, Wickard v. Filburn, United States v. Lopez, United States v. Morrison, and NFIB v. Sebelius.

Michael William McConnell is a constitutional law scholar who served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 until 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has served as Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School.

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