Essays Tagged: "interstate commerce"

Campaign Slogans of 1912 Taft,Roosevelt,Bryan.

who belonged to the progressive wing. All candidates focused on the issues of regulating business, interstate commerce, and political reform. Wilson would go on to attack matters concerning the prote ...

(4 pages) 53 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Product Recall information.

the United States since the mid 1800s. The Food and Drug Act, which was enacted in 1906, prohibited interstate commerce of misbranded and adulterated foods, drink, and drugs. Although it has been repe ...

(8 pages) 199 0 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Uring the years of 1781 - 1789 did the articles of confederation provide a effective government.

power upon the states, which were arguing among themselves over issues such as state boundaries and interstate commerce. In fact, the financial situation in the United States during this period was so ... tralized government which relied too heavily on state decisions to function.Trade, both foreign and interstate, was a primary example of the Articles' shortcomings. Congress lacked the power to regula ...

(3 pages) 42 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

A radio broadcast about the F.L.S.A. (Fair Labor Standards Act).

It is intended to establish minimum living standards for workers engaged directly or indirectly in interstate commerce, including those involved in production of goods bound for such commerce.Host: D ... were. The act also set standards for overtime compensation and banned products of child labor from interstate commerce.Host: Well, I think that about wraps it up. Thank you for all of the wonderful i ...

(1 pages) 83 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Keating - Owen Child Labor Act Progressivism

VISMKeating - Owen Child Labor Act1.How did it work?The Keating - Owen Child Labor Act outlawed the interstate sale of products produced by child labor. It banned articles produced by child labor from ...

(1 pages) 65 5 1.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Natinal Labor Relations Board & functions

h their employers or to refrain from such activity. Generally applying to all employers involved in interstate commerce except agriculture, airlines, railroads, and government the Act implements the n ...

(3 pages) 75 1 3.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Powers of Congress.

de the power to appropriate money, authorize borrowing, levy taxes, regulate the currency, regulate interstate commerce, establish lower federal courts, maintain the armed forces, declare war, propose ...

(2 pages) 75 0 4.3 Aug/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Alabama commerce law.

e statute discriminated against out-of-state interests or did the statute impose an undue burden on interstate commerce?In this case the Alabama statute was unconstitutional because the statute discri ...

(2 pages) 11 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

Increase Minimum Wage.

he Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. The original minimum wage applied to workers engaged in interstate commerce and the production of goods for interstate commerce. In 1938, this applied to ro ...

(4 pages) 83 1 0.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Supreme Court Cases - Gibbons vs. Ogden

urt Justice John Marshall reminded them that the Constitution stated that Congress alone controlled interstate commerce. This case was a turning point for the expansion of federal power to address the ... all reversed the decision and granted that the Congress, not the states, have the power to regulate interstate commerce. Ultimately Gibbons won the case.In 1808, Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston ac ...

(2 pages) 29 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

Reasons to Failure of Laissez Fair

ter, talents, and efforts. However, when examining the corruption that occurred within land grants, interstate commerce, and anti-trust activities, government intervention was inevitable, and therefor ...

(2 pages) 9 0 3.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Economic History

Us vs. microsoft

Act.The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890 and prohibits a monopoly or restraint of trade in interstate commerce. The government believes that Microsoft is "tying" sales on buyers. This occurs ... ted in 1914 as an amendment to the Sherman Antitrust Act. It prohibits price-fixing conspiracies in interstate commerce. The Clayton Act was amended in 1950 to state that "no corporation shall acquire ...

(2 pages) 30 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

The Constitution - Delegates With Self-Interest

merce, no money to produce revenue, and debt. The articles were not allowed to regulate foreign and interstate commerce and it was difficult to find trading partners when other countries could not res ...

(12 pages) 45 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

isions of the 1977 act provided criminal penalties for any American business which used the mail or interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer or payment of money to a foreign official o ...

(7 pages) 87 0 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Judicial Nationalism/Missouri Crisis Study Notes

under article 1 section 8 congress does have the right to create a national bank-Gibbons v. Ogden (Interstate Commerce)-concerned a ferryboat monopoly --> boat going between NJ and NY-Thomas Gibbo ... edence-rules that if intrastate --> state government has the power to regulate such commerce and interstate --> federal government2.What was the Panic of 1819?-credit began to dry up and the val ...

(2 pages) 984 0 0.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers

Roles of the US constitution

state and federal government have concurrent power to regulate domestic commerce. The parameters of interstate and intrastate commerce are regulated equally by the federal and state governments. Inter ...

(3 pages) 111 0 1.7 Jan/2009

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Laissez Faire

olated and interrupted the principles of the laissez faire through railroad land grants, control of interstate commerce, and antitrust activities.During the 1800's, the federal government issued railr ... imination, with this case the Supreme Court established the exclusive power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. As a result, Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. This act set ...

(3 pages) 16 0 3.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkely

onstitution of 1787 put forth that the entire country was one, with no internal taxes or tariffs on interstate commerce. It was during that time that Alexander Hamilton built up the national credit ba ...

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

State of Confusion

tate of Confusion is in direct conflict with the Commerce Clause. The Commerce Clause regulates the interstate commerce which includes the movement of goods from one state to another. Ms. Trucker live ... he Commerce Clause) of the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government the authority to regulate interstate commerce (Henry R. Cheeseman, pg. 73). The clause was created to help foster free trade a ...

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Nov/2011

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers