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Substantial Effect – Constitutional Law I Outline

Constitutional Law I

Substantial Effect


The substantial effect test, first established in Wickard and later modified through Lopez and Raich, says that a statute has a valid subject under the Commerce Clause if Congress had a rational basis for finding that some economic activity in the aggregate substantially affects interstate commerce.