Champion v. Ames Case Brief

In the case of Champion v. Ames 188 U.S. 321 (1903),, the Federal Lottery Act of 1895 prohibited the interstate transportation of foreign lottery tickets. Champion imported a box of Paraguayan lottery tickets from Texas to California. The US Supreme Court found the Act to be Constitutional (5-4). They held that Congress can regulate chattel, or anything being moved interstate. In a dissent, Justice Fuller argued that this would amount to giving Congress general police power, since it amounted to saying that " everything is an article of commerce the moment it is taken to be transported from place to place, and of interstate commerce if from State to State." Project Wonderful -Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0