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Federalism Cases
Supreme Court Cases on Federalism
| Description of Case | Name of Case |
|---|---|
| Ruled that the Fed. Gun Control Act prohibiting the possession of a gun within 1000 ft. of a school was unconstitutional.; limited the application of the Commerce Clause | US v. Lopez |
| Upheld Civil Rts. Act; reaffirmed Congress's broad powers under Commerce Clause | Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. US |
| Struck down part of the Violence Against Women Act; limitation of application of Commerce Clause | US v Morrison |
| Established that it was constitutional to establish a Natl. Bank; used the elastic clause and supremacy clause | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| Held that the fed. license outweighed a state navigational license; showed the fed. govt. was supreme in issues of interstate commerce | Gibbons v. Ogden |
| Upheld Congressional legislation requiring states to raise the legal drinking age as a condition of receiving all their fed. hwy. funds | South Dakota v. Dole |
| Held that Congress had the power to set quotas on the production of crops even when the crop was destined for a farmer's private consumption | Wickard v. Filburn |
| Held that the individual mandate was not allowed under the Commerce Clause, but was allowed under the taxation power. It also held that threatening to withdraw all a state's Medicaid funds if they didn't expand Medicaid was too coercive and not allowed. | National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius |
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