Assignment Paper

Instructions: You are expected to write a brief response—generally ranging from a paragraph to multiple paragraphs—to each of the questions in the guide for each case (or set of cases). This means your total guide may span from a few paragraphs to a few pages. The responses should be in your own words and not involve extensive quotations from the text of the opinion. You are not to utilize sources outside of the textbook in completing the reading guides

National Labor Relation Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)

-Does the majority opinion offer a broad or restrictive definition of interstate commerce? How does it differ from previous definitions by the court?
-Is the NLRB narrow or broad in the scope of its regulation of companies engaged in interstate commerce? What is the dissent’s perspective here?
-In what ways is the majority opinion similar to that of Marshall in Gibbons v. Ogden?
-In comparing this decision with that of Wickard v. Filburn (1942) were the worst fears of the dissenters validated?