 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1875 - 794 pages
...regulate commerce among the States, is undisputed. The celebrated case of Gibbons re. Ogden decided that "commerce undoubtedly is traffic," "but it is something more, it is intercourse." The bill does not attempt to regulate in any way telegraphic correspondence between offices in the... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - District courts - 1875 - 786 pages
...v. Holliday, 3 Wall. 416.) In the leading case of Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wh. 189, Ch. J. MARSHALL says: "Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse." Unless, then, there is something in the circumstances of the case or in the act, from which it appears... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1876 - 536 pages
...favored the most liberal construction which the terms of the constitution would admit of. " Commerce ... is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. ... It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed.... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1876 - 534 pages
...favored the most liberal construction which the terms of the constitution would admit of. " Commerce ... is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its brandtes, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. ... It is the power... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...and citizens or subjects of foreign governments." It means trade, and it means intercourse. It means commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches. It includes navigation, as the principal means by which foreign intercourse is effected. To regulate... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1877 - 538 pages
...favored the most liberal construction which the terms of the constitution would admit of. " Commerce ... is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. ... It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed.... | |
 | William Henry Burroughs - Local taxation - 1877 - 970 pages
...constitutional provision the following propositions : That commerce is something more than traffic; it includes commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches, and comprehends navigation ; * it includes all sorts of trade that can be carried on between this country... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...Ch. 150. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more : it is intercourse. It describes commercial intercourse between nations and parts of...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1"; s. C. 17 Johns. 488; 4 Johns. Ch. 150; Steamboat Co. v. Livingston,... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...Constitution of the United States. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1; s. C. 17 Johns. 488 ; 4 Johns. Ch. 150. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more : it is intercourse. It describes commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1887 - 460 pages
...of commodities." Chief Justice Marshall, in delivering the opinion of the court in that case, said : "Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." In Brown v. The Stale of Maryland, 12 Wheaton 419, Chief Justice Marshall said: "The power is co-extensive... | |
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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. 
