You have not crossed state lines. And yet that is properly regulated as a federal thing because you are traveling in interstate airways. These are channels and instrumentalities of interstate commerce. So What changed on April 12, 1937 was that the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the Commerce Clause as giving Congress the power to regulate not only that, not only channels and instrumentalities and interstate commercial transactions, but also anything and everything that when measured in the aggregate, even if it takes place in one state and at one time, as long as it substantially affected interstate commerce when measured in the aggregate, one could regulate it federally. Now, does that sound like legalese? Yes, because it is. Does it sound confusing? Yes, and it's probably intended to be so. Let me just put this in perspective. (39:47–40:14)
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Asserts that the Supreme Court's 1937 decision expanded Congress's regulatory power under the Commerce Clause.
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