Hammer v. Dagenhart
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OP NORTH CAROLINA.' The case is stated in the opinion. [The Government supported its argument upon the history and physical and economic effects of.child labor by voluminous references to reports and debates in Congress and other public documents, including those bearing direct relation to the act in question.] Unquestionably the power conferred by the commerce clause embraced all which the States ,…
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APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OP NORTH CAROLINA.' The case is stated in the opinion. [The Government supported its argument upon the history and physical and economic effects of.child labor by voluminous references to reports and debates in Congress and other public documents, including those bearing direct relation to the act in question.] Unquestionably the power conferred by the commerce clause embraced all which the States , had previously enjoyed over the subject, and “the power of a sovereign State over commerce, therefore, arnounts to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
A bill was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina by a father in his own behalf and as next friend of his two minor sons, one under the age of fourteen years and the other between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, years, employees in a cotton mill at Charlotte, North Carolina, to enjoin the enforcement of the act of Congress intended to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor. Act of Sept. 1, 1916, c. 432, 39 Stat. 675.
The District Court held the act unconstitutional and entered a decree enjoining its enforcement. This appeal…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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