Word: wickard
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...contrast, the Court has long permitted Congress to regulate anything that it claims has "a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce." Thus in 1942 (Wickard v. Filburn), the Court upheld the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as applied to a farmer who sowed only 23 acres of wheat mostly for home consumption. Reasoning: the combined output of many small farmers affects the total flow of interstate commerce...