In the Wickard v. Filburn case (1945), the Supreme Court declared that the private use of wheat on a single family farm could be curtailed by the federal government.

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The Court supported this extension of power by declaring that the farmer's use of his own wheat on his own land to bake his own bread affected interstate commerce. After all, whenever any farmer uses his own wheat, he does not buy wheat in interstate commerce, thus weakening (or affecting) the entire interstate market.

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