 It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 1961847Full view - About this book
 | North American review - 1889 - 784 pages
...construction. Said Chief-Justice Marshall, in the leading case of Gibbons vs. Ogden (9 Wheaton, 103): " It is the power to regulate ; that Is, to prescribe...the rule by which commerce Is to be governed. This power, like all other* vested in the Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 748 pages
...power might be exercised being thus determined, it remained to inquire what the power was. It was a power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce was to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, was complete in itself, might be... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1890 - 1210 pages
...(affg. Mayor of Fredericton v. Queen, 3 Can. SC 5O5);Severn v. Queen, 2 Can. SC 70. 2. Congress has "the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent,... | |
 | Samuel Freeman Miller - Constitutional law - 1891 - 804 pages
...never be excelled in its brevity, accuracy, and comprehensiveness. He says that " to regulate commerce is to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed." Commerce being intercourse and traffic between people, to regulate it is to prescribe rules by which... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1891 - 596 pages
...of the court in tlte quoted case are: '•What is this power? It is the power to regulate— tltut is. to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. Now the court asks and answers the question clearly and llnnlly." Again and again this highest court... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 742 pages
...constitutionally exerted ? This question was answered when Chief Justice Marshall said that it was the power " to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed." " This power," the Chief Justice continued, " like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may... | |
 | Labor - 1908 - 1132 pages
...r. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 190, where he said: ''We are now arrived at the inquiry, What is this power? It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe...the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 866 pages
...v. Off den, 9 Wheat. 1, 196, Chief Justice Marshall said, as to this power to regulate commerce : " It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe...the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all other vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent,... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 pages
...Philadelphia, and between Philadelphia and Baltimore. AVe are now arrived at the inquiry, what is this power? It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe...the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent,... | |
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