Five examples of reserved powers are regulating intrastate trade and commerce (businesses within a state), creating public schools, issuing professional licenses, establishing local governments, and passing voting laws. What do reserved powers mean? Reserved powers are those that are not specifically ...
PurposeTax goods sold within the stateEnsure tax is paid on out-of-state or untaxed purchases Sales tax in its truest definition applies only to intrastate sales where the seller and the customer are located in the same state. Sales taxes are considered “trust taxes” where the seller collect...
Martinet, of course, knew that theAbbottcase did not apply to intrastate commerce—that is, travel entirely within the borders of Louisiana—and he and Tourgée began looking for another light-skinned Black man to test the law. They foundHomer Plessy—a shoemaker, a friend of Desdunes’s fa...