Widdekind
Member
- Mar 26, 2012
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Congress may "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers." This gives Congress all sorts of authority to do things which are not explicitly spelled out in the remainder of this section, but which are necessary in order to execute the powers that are...
Congress is authorized to regulate interstate and international commerce...
the Commerce Clause permits Congress to "observe economic transactions" when-and-only-when they "cross borders-and-boundaries":
i.e. if-and-only-if economic actors have to "scale some Federal fence" (cross Federal map lines), to conduct business, can Congress Intervene. Ergo, intra-state labor is legally in-visible, to Congressional Intervention (being a "right of States").[Congress can] regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes