Answer to Question #142960 in Political Science for Oumou Diallo

Question

What is the definition of "commerce," according to Marshall?

Answer 1

According to John Marshall, commerce does not merely refer to buying and selling of goods and services, but all forms of commercial relations, including navigation. He empasized that such commerce must extend to the interior parts of the participant states. The definition of commerce has been interpreted both as a grant of positive authority to Congress and as an implied prohibition of state laws and regulations that interfere with or discriminate against interstate commercial relationships.