The states and the Confederation Congress both had large debts during the revolutionary war, and repaying those debts became a major issue of debate following the War. Some States paid off their war debts and others could not. Taxing authority had led the denial of the trade policies and were then changed by the constitution. The constitution made a change to the foreign trade and interstate by adding Article 1, section 8, clause 3. The Court allows the states less power to tax foreign commerce than they have to tax interstate commerce, the Supreme Court declared that a state tax affecting interstate commerce would be valid only if it were nondiscriminatory, applied to an interstate activity that had a "substantial nexus" with the state, apportioned fairly, and connected to services that the state
The states and the Confederation Congress both had large debts during the revolutionary war, and repaying those debts became a major issue of debate following the War. Some States paid off their war debts and others could not. Taxing authority had led the denial of the trade policies and were then changed by the constitution. The constitution made a change to the foreign trade and interstate by adding Article 1, section 8, clause 3. The Court allows the states less power to tax foreign commerce than they have to tax interstate commerce, the Supreme Court declared that a state tax affecting interstate commerce would be valid only if it were nondiscriminatory, applied to an interstate activity that had a "substantial nexus" with the state, apportioned fairly, and connected to services that the state