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Michigan Law Review

1933

Highways

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State Regulation Of Interstate Motor Carriers, Paul G. Kauper May 1933

State Regulation Of Interstate Motor Carriers, Paul G. Kauper

Michigan Law Review

According to Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution, "The Congress shall have power . . . to regulate commerce . . . among the several States . . . . " Is this provision of the Constitution applicable to interstate motor transportation over a public highway, built, owned, and maintained by a State? The provincial view might have been put forward that because the State owns the highways, therefore it should have exclusive control with respect to the commerce passing over them. Whatever force might have been conceded such a view in the early history of our country, when …