The supreme court, of the corporate United states, hands down Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, overturning National League of Cities v. Usery: The states ARE subject to the Federal minimum wage statutes.
We realize that changes in the structure of the Federal Government have taken place since 1789, not the least of which has been the substitution of popular election of Senators by the adoption of the [s]eventeenth [a]mendment in 1913, and that these changes may work to alter the influence of the [s]tates in the [F]ederal political process.
In a dissenting opinion neo-conservative Lewis F. Powell, Jr., associate justice writes, “Indeed the Court’s view of federalism appears to relegate the [s]tates to precisely the trivial role that opponents of the Constitution feared they would occupy.”
NOTE: Associate justice Harry A. Blackmun switched his position between the two cases.
[restored 8/29/2025]
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References:
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528, 554 (1985).
Gerald Gunther, Constitutional Law, twelfth edition, (Westbury, New York: Foundation Press, 1991), 160, 165, 168.
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/469/528/case.html
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