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Missouri v. Holland

SCOTUS · Decided Decided

Case Overview

A treaty plus implementing legislation can reach subjects beyond Congress's ordinary enumerated powers; upheld the Migratory Bird Treaty Act against a Tenth Amendment challenge. Holmes's living-constitution passage is among the most quoted in constitutional law.


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