The U.S. Constitution's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 is referred to as the "Commerce Clause," and it grants Congress the authority "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states, and with the Indian tribes."
<h3>What is Commerce Clause?</h3>
Significant and ongoing debate about the distribution of power between the federal government and the states has resulted from Congress's repeated use of the Commerce Clause as justification for exercising legislative authority over state and citizen actions.
In the past, the Commerce Clause was seen as both a grant of power to Congress and a limitation on the power of the States to regulate themselves.
Due to the lack of a clear definition of "commerce" in the Constitution, there is much disagreement over the authority that Congress is granted under section 8, clause 3.
Some contend that word just refers to trade or exchange, while others assert that the Constitution's framers intended to express more widely social and commercial interactions between inhabitants of various states.
