from crimes of violence" that are gender motivated. It also gives a

private civil right of action to the victims of these crimes. The

Senate report attached to the act states that "Gender based crimes and

fear of gender based crimes...reduces employment opportunities and

consumer spending affecting interstate commerce."

Sara Benenson has been abused by her husband, Andrew Benenson,

since 1978. Because of this abuse, she sued her husband under various

tort claims and violations under the Violence Against Women Act. Now

Mr. Benenson is protesting the constitutionality of this act claiming

that Congress has no right to pass a law that legislates for the

However, Congress has a clear Constitutional right to regulate

interstate commerce. This act is based solely on interstate commerce

and is thereforeConstitutional. Because of abuse, Sara Benenson was

afraid to get a job because it would anger her husband. She was afraid

to go back to school and she was afraid to go shopping or spend any

money on her own. All three of these things clearly interfere and

affect interstate commerce. Women like M

women's self esteem, tears apart families, and destroys lives. Many

women to get some means of getting money to live on while they rebuild

segregation. McClung, the owner of a barbeque that would not allow

would be left incapable of getting any form of financial redress for

the powerful precedents set by the Supreme court to allow Congress to

Sara Benenson's inability to work might not seem to affect interstate

learning and therefore limited their future earning power. It also

their shattered lives after an abusive relationship. To declare his

said that violence affected national insurance companies. These

Congress to be able to accomplish it's duties. The same logic should

In the case of Katzenbach v. McClung, the Court upheld an act

by Congress because it could not legislate intrastate commerce. The

out of state business and was therefore not subject to the act passed

The same logic should be applied in this case. Even though

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