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interstate commerce

interstate commerce \in"ter*state` com"merce\, n. Commerce that involves transportation of articles of commerce across state lines. [U.S.]

Usage examples of "interstate commerce".

Two of them were local cops, too, and the case wasn't going anywhere, so the Bureau got involved under interstate commerce and civil rights statutes.

Split City had an Interstate Commerce Commission freight-forwarder's license, in the name of Bernard Gary.

It was a certificate of appreciation from the Interstate Commerce enforcement division made out to her instructor, John Brigham.

They can't keep anybody's food out of Pennsylvania, anyhow -- it's a burden on interstate commerce.

But it would have no general authority to regulate either foreign or interstate commerce (except to a limited extent by commercial treaties), nor the power to tax.

The Congress as a whole was to have the power to tax, control the purse, and regulate interstate commerce and foreign trade.

I want all interstate commerce halted by no later than 1200 hours today.

Now, he thought, Pointed Shoes becomes a homicide committed in interstate commerce.

These aging artifacts of long-dead interstate commerce were the very heart and soul of the place.

Any interruption in oil transfer between Prudhoe Bay and, say, California, would be regarded as an unlawful interference with interstate commerce and would automatically bring in the FBI.

Isolated from interstate commerce, New Orleans would go the way of Babylon, Angkor Wat and Pueblo Bonito.