United States v. Samuel D. Sage

How courts have described this case

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• holding CSRA constitutional on grounds that it is valid regulation of instrumentalities of, or things or persons moving in, interstate commerce
• rejecting argument that failure to send money does not invoke Commerce Clause power because “[i]f Congress can take measures under the Commerce Clause to foster potential interstate commerce, it surely has power to prevent the frustration of an obligation to engage in commerce”
• “If Congress can take measures under the Commerce Clause to foster potential interstate commerce, it surely has power to prevent the frustration of an obligation to engage in commerce.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).