History of the United States II / Unit 5 USH2 0611 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Court and the Railroads
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The idea
In the Wabash case of eighteen eighty-six, the Supreme Court struck down an Illinois law regulating railroad rates, holding that only Congress could regulate interstate commerce.
In practice
State regulation of the railroads falling, one law after another.
Where people slip
In eighteen ninety-seven the Court's decision in Interstate Commerce Commission versus Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway undercut the commission itself.
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