Jim operates Jim's Fruits & Vegetables, a small market stocked entirely with produce grown on his adjacent farm. Under what clause of the Constitution can the federal government regulate Jim's activities? What is Jim's best argument against federal regulation of his farm and business?
Under the commerce clause, at least in theory, Congress has the power to regulate any activity-interstate or intrastate-that affects interstate commerce. Thus, under that clause, it could be argued that the farmer's growing and selling of produce is subject to federal regulation because these activities affect inter-state commerce.
The farmer-vendor's best argument against federal regula-tion of his farm and business in this problem might be that in his case these activities and their effects are purely local. But because of the economic char-acter of these activi-ties, and hence their effect on interstate commerce, however minimal and de-spite their local charac-ter, it is unlikely that a court would accept this ar-gument.?
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