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The Right To Engage In Interstate And Foreign Commerce As An Individual Or As A Corporation, Fred'k H. Cooke

Michigan Law Review

There are two circumstances that seem to me to tend to obscure a discussion of the right to engage in interstate or foreign commerce. One is the existence of the constitutional provision conferring on Congress power to regulate such commerce; the other, the circumstance that such commerce is commonly carried on rather by corporations than by individuals. For the present, let us ignore these two circumstances, and assume the commerce clause to be non-existent; also, that all interstate and foreign commerce is carried on by individuals exclusively, and not at all by corporations. In short, let us transport ourselves pro …