Supreme Court Case Study: Hammer V. Dagenhart Case

Hammer v. Dagenhart case argued inaApril 15,16, 1918 and decided in June 3, 1918 by the supreme court. This case discussed child labor laws. during the progressive era America turned against what was perceived as brutal child labor, in the early 1900’s it was common for kids to work long hours in different types of industries, they had to work more than 60 hours a week, day and night, this brought the supreme court’s attention and that’s how this case was admitted to be discussed in the supreme court.
Roland Dagenhart was the one that took this case to the supreme court, because he worked at a manufacturing business with his 2 sons in North Carolina, he presented his case with 3 constitutional arguments. He argued that kids were being forced

to work a lot more than what they are capable of in horrible conditions.
This is an issue of federalism because when this case was taken to the Supreme Court, they were accused for not recognizing both the Commerce Clause and the Tenth Amendment and how his statements were correct and related to those two. The Court came to a result that for Dagenharts argument they will cross out the Keating-Owen Act.
With a 4-5 majority, the court determined that the act was expected both an unconstitutional proposal of the Commerce Clause and a violation of stateyrights because he and his argument were protected by the Tenth Amendment. The minority just completed disagreed with Dagenharts intentions. This is where the court decided that the Keating-Owen Act was unconstitutional.
I definitely disagree with the court's logic, although the supreme court didn’t really have a choice because factual information was presented to them, some punishments should’ve been presented to Dagenhart. Child labor is almost like torture when exceeding what one can handle, especially as a child with limited abilities.