1. Legal Case: Hammer Vs. Dagenhart (1918)
" for unfair low wages.4 Concerns about the effect these jobs had on children and laws regarding child labor and minimum age began to surface and by 1910 a majority of states had implemented such laws. Some states passed laws restricting child labor causing an economic disadvantage for those states. ... 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 Supre...
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