Commerce clause

Definition - Noun
often cap both Cs : a clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that empowers Congress to regulate interstate commerce and commerce with foreign countries and that forms the constitutional basis for much federal regulation
see also Article I of the Constitution in the back matter



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