 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 740 pages
...what amounts to a "regulation." "Commerce," says Marshall,. CJ, in Gibbons \. Ogden, "is undoubtedly traffic; but it is something more. It is intercourse....intercourse between nations and parts of nations in nil its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse." And again... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 496 pages
...Marshall, adopting Mr. Webster's view and construing the word "commerce" as used in the Constitution, said: "Commerce undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. It has been truly said that commerce, as the word is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part... | |
 | 1874 - 500 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...intercourse between nations and parts of nations in alt its branches, * * * Commerce, as the ivord is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1874 - 554 pages
...objects, to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; ii is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its brandies. » * * Commerce, as the word is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part of which... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...his opinion commerce was something more than traffic or the transportation of property. It was also " the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its brandies"; and it embraced, by necessary inference, all inter-State communications, and the whole subject... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1874 - 1332 pages
...the United Statesiuthe case of Gibbous vs. Ogden, 9 Wheatou, I. In that case the court said that " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more — it is intercourse;" and also said, "All America understands, aud has uniformly understood, the word commerce to comprehend... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 676 pages
...Chief Justice MARSHALL, "undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it i8 intercourse. It is the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse." (9 Wheat. 189.) "Commerce," says Mr. Justice JOHNSON,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 568 pages
...his opinion commerce was something more than traffic or the transportation of property. It was also "the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches"; and it embraced, by necessary inference, all inter-State communications, and the whole subject of intercourse... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1875 - 1182 pages
...t he United States in the case of Gibbous c«. Ogdeu,9 Wheatou, 1. In that case the court said that "Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more — it is intercourse;" and also said, "All America understands, and has uniformly understood, the word commerce to comprehend... | |
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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. 
