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Constitutional Law Part 2: The Federal Legislative Power Lecture 5: Tenth Amendment Limitations on Commerce Power
Constitutional Law – Professor David Thaw Part 2 Lecture 5Slide 2 Gonzales v. Raich Background California passed the Compassionate Use Act, which allowed for the use of medical marijuana. Although California had this exemption to its state marijuana laws for medical uses, no such exemption exists under the federal law. The defendants were growing medicinal marijuana in compliance with California law, but in violation of federal law. DEA agents came to their homes and destroyed the marijuana plants.
Constitutional Law – Professor David Thaw Part 2 Lecture 5Slide 3 Gonzales v. Raich Issue: Does the commerce power of Congress extend to prohibit the local cultivation and use of marijuana in compliance with state law? The defendants argued that Congress had exceeded their interstate commerce clause authority in legislating the behavior of a local citizen, consuming a locally grown herb in his own home.
Constitutional Law – Professor David Thaw Part 2 Lecture 5Slide 4 Gonzales v. Raich Holding: Congress constitutionally may use its power to regulate commerce among the states to prohibit the cultivation and possession of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Intrastate production of a commodity sold in interstate commerce is economic activity and thus substantial effect can be based on cumulative impact. The Court said they “need not determine whether respondents’ activities, taken in the aggregate, substantially affect interstate commerce in fact, but only whether a rational basis exists for so concluding.” (CB 213) – The Court recognized that there is a high likelihood that marijuana grown for personal use will end up in the interstate market because of high demand for marijuana, therefore “the diversion of homegrown marijuana tends to frustrate the federal interest in eliminating commercial transactions in the interstate market in their entirety... we have no difficulty concluding that Congress had a rational basis.” (CB 213).
Constitutional Law – Professor David Thaw Part 2 Lecture 5Slide 5 Printz v. United States Background: The Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act required the Attorney General to establish a national background check system. Until the national system became computerized, interim provisions for background checks were established. Those provisions provided that state and local law enforcement officers must do background checks before issuing permits to buy firearms. Two local law enforcement officers challenged the constitutionality of the Act’s interim provisions.
Constitutional Law – Professor David Thaw Part 2 Lecture 5Slide 6 Printz v. United States Issue: Does the Brady Act violate the Tenth Amendment by requiring that state and local law enforcement officers conduct background checks on prospective handgun purchasers? A prior case held that it is unconstitutional for Congress to compel state legislatures to adopt laws or state agencies to adopt regulations.
Constitutional Law – Professor David Thaw Part 2 Lecture 5Slide 7 Printz v. United States Holding: The background check requirement of the Brady Act violates the Constitution because the federal government may not compel the states to enact or administer a federal regulatory program. The majority did not expressly discuss the Commerce Power, but rather based their decision on the principle of dual sovereignty. Although the states surrendered many of their powers to the newly created federal government, they retained what the Court termed a "residuary and inviolable sovereignty" reflected throughout the Constitution. (CB 232) – “It is an essential attribute of the States’ retained sovereignty that they remain independent and autonomous within their proper sphere of authority.” Congress cannot compel the States to enact or enforce a federal regulatory program because that impermissibly commandeers state executive officials to implement a federal mandate. (CB 234)
Constitutional Law – Professor David Thaw Part 2 Lecture 5Slide 8 Printz v. United States The dissent was unwilling to question whether Congress had general authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate firearms. – “There can be no question that [the Commerce Clause] adequately supports the regulation of commerce in handguns” (CB 236).
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