1. Legal Case: Hammer Vs. Dagenhart (1918)
... -old son Reuben to work. Dagenhart filed the lawsuit that made its way and was reviewed by the United States Supreme Court. Dagenhart contended that this law was not a regulation of commerce, that child labor laws were reserved to the states provided in the Tenth Amendment, and that the right to allow his children to work was guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment.6 In a narrow ruling of five to ... four, the Supreme Court agreed and over-turned the Keating-Owen Act declaring, "the manufacture of goods is not commerce." Dual federalism divides ... ...
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