 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...navigation.. This would restrict a general term, applicable to. many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more: it is intercourse. It describes the com1824. mercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Cherokee Indians - 1830 - 326 pages
..."commerce with the Indian tribes?" The Supreme Court have given an explanation of the phrase. They say, " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse." As used in the constitution, "it is a unit, every part of which is indicated by the term. It cannot... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...to other clauses to limit them. In the present case there is nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic; but it is something more. It is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches;... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...D»'ig»tion. This would restrict a general term applic* ble to many objects to one of its sigaificationi. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and paM" nations, in all its branches, and... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...navigation. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse/^ It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...to other clauses, to limit them. In the present case, there is nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something more. It is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 718 pages
...Judge, presiding. GEORGE A. BARR, State's Attorney, (GARNSEY, WOOD & LENNON, of counsel,) for appellant: Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1865 - 384 pages
...to other clauses, to limit them. In the present case, there is nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something more. It is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1867 - 690 pages
...commerce. "Commerce," says Chief Justice Marshall, iu the opinion in Gibbons vs. Ogden, to which we eo often turn with profit when this clause of the Constitution is under consideration, " undoubtedly rs traffic ; but it is something more — it is intercourse." The law before us professée... | |
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Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. 
