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65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 767 (2008)
Regulating Intrastate Crime: How the Federal Kidnapping Act Blurs the Distinction between What Is Truly National and What Is Truly Local

handle is hein.journals/waslee65 and id is 775 raw text is: Regulating Intrastate Crime: How the Federal Kidnapping Act Blurs the Distinction Between What Is Truly National and What Is Truly Local Colin V. Ram* Table of Contents I. Introduction .................................................................................. 768 II. Federal Regulation Under the Commerce Clause ......................... 771 A. Channels of Interstate Commerce .......................................... 776 B. Instrumentalities of Interstate Commerce .............................. 778 C. Substantial Effects Test ......................................................... 779 III. Federal K idnapping A ct ............................................................... 781 A . The Snatch Racket ............................................................. 781 B. The Lindbergh Law ............................................................... 783 C. The 2006 Am endm ent ........................................................... 786 IV. Examining the Impact of the 2006 Amendment ........................... 787 A . Interstate Kidnappings ........................................................... 788 B. Intrastate K idnappings ........................................................... 789 C. Congress's Authority to Regulate Wholly Intrastate C rim es ................................................................................... 790 1. Defining the Outer Limits of Federal Criminal Law with the Substantial Effects Doctrine .............................. 790 2. The Conflicting Permissiveness of the Channels and Instrumentalities Rationale ....................................... 793 • Candidate for J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law, 2008; B.A., American University, 1996. I would like to thank Donald Houser and Professor Dorothy A. Brown for their invaluable guidance, remarkable patience, and helpful critiques. Additionally, I would like to give a special word of thanks to my friends and family, for providing the right amount of support and distraction throughout the writing process. This Note is dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Madhira Subba Rao, Advocate.