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Interstate commerce:
- Business transactions involving companies in more than one state.
Interstate Commerce Act (1887):
- Congressional legislation that established the Interstate Commerce Commission, compelled railroads to publish standard rates, and prohibited rebates and pools. Railroads quickly became adept at using the Act to achieve their own ends, but the Act gave the government an important means to regulate big business.
Example of Interstate commerce:
The biggest issue today of interstate commerce is whether marijuana grown, licensed, and sold entirely in one state is an example of intrastate commerce and can therefore not be regulated (or prohibited) by the federal government.
Opponents would say that marijuana sales, even within a single state, effect the national marijuana black market and therefore can be regulated by the federal government as interstate commerce.
Business does not affect Interstate commerce-
Although a state may not directly regulate, prohibit, or burden interstate or foreign commerce, it may incidentally and indirectly affect it by abona fide, legitimate, and reasonable exercise of its police powers. States are powerless to regulate commerce with Indian tribes.