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Abstract
The Constitution's original meaning is its meaning to those ratifying the document during a discrete time period: from its adoption by the Constitutional Convention in late 1787 until Rhode Island's ratification on May 29, 1790. Reconstructing it requires historical skills, including a comprehensive approach to sources. Jack Balkin's article Commerce fails to consider the full range of evidence and thereby attributes to the Constitution's Commerce Clause a scope that virtually no one in the Founding Era believed it had.
Recommended Citation
Robert G. Natelson,
Commerce in the Commerce Clause: A Response to Jack Balkin,
109
Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions
55
(2010).
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