Below you will find example sentences with "commerce clause". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Commerce Clause in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 14
- Discovered as a combination around: commerce
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 4
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.6 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "commerce clause" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as constitution s commerce clause, both the commerce clause argument as, yes, court and states stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with interstate commerce, commerce department, commerce minister, interstate commerce, commerce department and commerce minister, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with commerce clause
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Judicial rulings against attempted use of Congress's Commerce Clause powers continued during the 1930s. (15 words)
Recently, the Commerce Clause was interpreted to include marijuana laws in the Gonzales v. Raich decision. (16 words)
Chief Justice Roberts rejected both the Commerce Clause argument as well as Judge Kavanaugh’s AIA claim. (17 words)
The new rules under the ruling are based on the dormant Commerce Clause, which says state regulation may not discriminate against interstate commerce and that states may not impose an undue burden on interstate commerce. (35 words)
He contends that the states’ licensing processes prioritize state residents for social equity licenses in violation of the US Constitution’s dormant commerce clause, which seeks to prevent states from unduly restricting interstate commerce. (34 words)
Opponents of the initiative argue in their lawsuit that I-1639's ban on nonresidents purchasing semi-automatic rifles violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by "impermissibly" impeding trade between states. (34 words)
Example sentences (14)
Taft Court membership timeline yes yes yes yes yes yes Jurisprudence further Commerce Clause The Supreme Court, under Taft, posted a conservative record in Commerce Clause jurisprudence.
The new rules under the ruling are based on the dormant Commerce Clause, which says state regulation may not discriminate against interstate commerce and that states may not impose an undue burden on interstate commerce.
He contends that the states’ licensing processes prioritize state residents for social equity licenses in violation of the US Constitution’s dormant commerce clause, which seeks to prevent states from unduly restricting interstate commerce.
She said the main purpose of the dormant Commerce Clause plaintiffs argued should allow them to access New York's market doesn’t apply to the federally illegal cannabis trade.
In September 2018, Gomez invalidated the territory’s excise tax, saying it violates the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause.
Opponents of the initiative argue in their lawsuit that I-1639's ban on nonresidents purchasing semi-automatic rifles violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by "impermissibly" impeding trade between states.
Chief Justice Roberts rejected both the Commerce Clause argument as well as Judge Kavanaugh’s AIA claim.
He also mastered a new set of issues regarding the Commerce Clause and, in a deliberately restrained manner, wrote constitutional decisions that expanded the regulatory powers of both the state and federal governments.
In both of those decisions, Rehnquist, along with four of the Court's more conservative justices, held Congressional legislation unconstitutional, because that legislation exceeded the limits of the Constitution's Commerce clause.
Judicial rulings against attempted use of Congress's Commerce Clause powers continued during the 1930s.
Recently, the Commerce Clause was interpreted to include marijuana laws in the Gonzales v. Raich decision.
The expansive interpretation of the Commerce Clause was restrained during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when a laissez-faire attitude dominated the Court.
This decision marked the beginning of the Court's total deference to Congress' claims of Commerce Clause powers, which lasted into the 1990s.
United States v. Lopez (1995) was the first decision in six decades to invalidate a federal statute on the grounds that it exceeded the power of the Congress under the Commerce Clause.