Write a summary of the Commerce Clause and its effect on business activity, discussing the evolution of the Commerce Clause after reading the
assigned cases: Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824); Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942); Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964);and United States v. Alfonso D. Lopez, Jr., 514 U.S. 549 (1995).