Question

Explain the Commerce Power of Congress

Answer 1

Answer:

To address the problems of interstate trade barriers and the ability to enter into trade agreements, it included the Commerce Clause, which grants Congress the power "to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." Moving the power to regulate interstate commerce toCongress would enable the creation of a free trade zone among the several states; removing the power to regulate international trade from the states would enable the president to negotiate, and Congress to approve, treaties to open foreign markets to American-made goods. The international commerce power also gave Congress the power to abolish the slave trade with other nations, which it did effective on January 1, 1808, the very earliest date allowed by the Constitution.

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Answer 2

The commerce power is the power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign trade. It is important because the commerce clause has been the primary way in which Congress has expanded the regulatory powers of the federal government over the past 100 years or so.