Reconstituting United States v. Lopez: Another Look at Federal Criminal Law

Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  St Laurent, Andrew ^a  

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References (5)

1. 514 U.S. 549 (1995).
2. Judge Alex Kozinski, Introduction to Volume Nineteen, 19 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1, 5 (1995).
3. The process by which the powers of Congress could be extended indefinitely was articulated by Thomas Jefferson: "Congress [is] authorized to defend the nation. Ships are necessary for defense; mines, necessary for copper; a company necessary to work the mines; and who can doubt this reasoning who has ever played at 'This is the House that Jack Built'? Under such a process of filiation of necessities, the sweeping clause makes clean work." Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, referring to the powers of the Necessary and Proper Clause (Apr. 30, 1800), in 7 The Writings of Thomas Jefferson 443, 444 (Paul Leicester Ford ed., G.P. Putnam's Sons 1896).
4. Richard A. Epstein, The Proper Scope of the Commerce Power, 73 Va. L. Rev. 1387 (1987).
5. Lopez, 514 U.S. at 567-68.