Commerce Clause
Feds Have No Constitutional Authority to Impose Wage Controls
Talk of hiking the minimum wage at the national level has ramped up in recent weeks. With the Democrats controlling the House and the Senate, and Joe Biden in the White House, it seems increasingly likely that we’ll soon see a federal $15 per hour minimum. In other...
Read the Commerce Clause in the Light cast by the other Parts of our Constitution
The parts of our federal Constitution are so interrelated that it is impossible to understand a single clause therein without considering all of the other provisions of our Constitution. Article I, §8, clause 3, US Constitution, states: “The Congress shall have Power...
Where were all the Constitution’s defenders when the feds raised the smoking age?
On December 20, President Trump signed legislation purporting to impose a single national age of 21 for selling tobacco products. Obviously, the measure reduces the freedom of millions of Americans who are legally adults in almost every other respect—including...
Fight for 15 is the Wrong Battle in the Wrong War
The U.S. House recently passed a bill to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. The move simultaneously taps into both constitutional and economic foolishness. In the first place, Congress doesn’t have any constitutional authority to legislate...