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The argument in Wickard is that growing wheat on your farm is interstate commerce because if you grow your own wheat, you won't buy someone else's wheat, which
by eurleif 14y ago
The argument in Wickard is that growing wheat on your farm is interstate commerce because if you grow your own wheat, you won't buy someone else's wheat, which affects the interstate market for wheat. How does that depend on technological progress? Seems like it would apply as long as wheat were sold across state lines at all.
- gamblor956 14y agoInterstate effect is meaningless if technology cannot support the transfer of goods across the necessary distances. In the 1900s, this technology was mostly physical, related to the transport and storage of goods. Today, technology across all sectors has improved to the point where you can now order heirloom todays and get same day delivery (in some markets). When these SCOTUS cases were decided, that same process would have taken months.
- eurleif 14y agoInterstate markets always existed, despite being less convenient and less popular. If you chose to buy from a local vendor, you were implicitly choosing not to buy from an interstate vendor, which means you were having the indirect effect on interstate commerce that Wickard v. Filburn relies on.