Interstate commerce created pressure for uniform commercial laws
Evidence
At the end of the nineteenth century, another strong but quite different codifica tion movement arose. This movement had its greatest successes with regard to com mercial law. Here the need was very great. The United States had entered the age of railroads, telephones, telegraph, interstate business. Goods and labor moved freely across state lines; laws did not. A company that did business in many states or that sold its goods in many states had to try somehow to comply with a whole host of slightly different laws. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 460
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Interstate commerce defeated state-by-state pure food regulation, pushing federal law — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 987; Divergent state liability rules made interstate carriage outcomes unpredictable — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 3867; Commercial law shifted from merchants to broad market participants — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1568 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- A national market economy inherently generates demand for national-level regulation
#expands(0.80) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 4193 - American regulation moved historically from local to state to federal control
#corroborates(0.78) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2547 - Commercial law shifted from merchants to broad market participants
#expands(0.72) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1568 - The Industrial Revolution required pre-existing commercial, legal, and labor institutions
#corroborates(0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 218