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Abortion As Commerce: The Impact Of "United States V. Lopez" On The Freedom Of Access To Clinic Entrances Act Of 1994, Benjamin W. Roberson
Abortion As Commerce: The Impact Of "United States V. Lopez" On The Freedom Of Access To Clinic Entrances Act Of 1994, Benjamin W. Roberson
Vanderbilt Law Review
American politics in the 1990s is preoccupied with the movement of power from a centralized federal authority to state and local governments. There is some measure of consensus that the federal government can no longer provide solutions to all of America's problems., The resulting retreat from the twentieth century federal monolith has interesting implications for constitutional law. The federal government's power expanded largely under the authority of the Commerce Clause. Although the traditional broad interpretation of Congress's commerce power bears little resemblance to the actual text of the Constitution, courts have accepted the notion that Congress may regulate any activity …