 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 pages
...in order to ascertain the extent of the power, to ascertain the meaning of the words. The power is, to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule, by which commerce is to be governed. The subject to be regulated, is commerce. Is that limited to traffic, to buying and selling, or the... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1847 - 492 pages
...States, as connected with the subject-matter there in controversy, Chief Justice Marshall said : " We are now arrived at the inquiry ; What is this power...Constitution. These are expressed in plain terms, and do not afTect the questions which arise in this case. 12* If, as has been always understood, the sovereignty... | |
 | 1847 - 602 pages
...importance and deliberation, when, in delivering the judgment of the Supreme Court, he says of it: " It is the power to regulate, that is, to prescribe...the rule by which commerce is to be governed."* This is quite a different thing from making or improving harbors or avenues for commerce ! To open or to... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...in delivering the judgment of the Supreme Court, he says of it: "It is the power to regulate,ïthat is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed."* This is quite a different thing from making or improving harbors or avenues for commerce ! To open or to... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...power of congress might be exercised within a state. § 198. The power granted was a power to regulate, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, was complete in itself, might be exercised to its utmost extent, acknowledges no limitation other than... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1891 - 616 pages
...meant by this opinion of the Supreme Court? The words of the court in the quoted case are : "Wluit is this power? It is the power to regulate— that...prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. Now the court asks mid answers the question clearly and flniilly." Again and again this highest court... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1891 - 612 pages
..."power" is meant by this opinion of the Supreme Court? The words of the court In the quoted case are : "What is this power? It is the power to regulate —...Is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be goverucd. Now the court usks nud answers the question clearly und finally." Again and again this highest... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 772 pages
...that navigation may be connected with commerce with foreign nations, or among the several States." " It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is governed." " Vessels have always been employed to a greater or less [ * 437 ] extent in the transportation... | |
 | Lewis Cass - 1856 - 96 pages
...attention in the present inquiry. "This power," that to regulate commerce^ says the Chief Justice, " like all others vested in Congress, is complete in...acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed by the Constitution. These are expressed in plain terms, and. do not affect the questions which arise... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1858 - 572 pages
...then, whatever it may be, must be exercised within the territorial jurisdiction of the several States.' 'What is this power ? It is the power to regulate...limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution/ 'It has been contended by the counsel for the appellant, that, as the word "to regulate" implies in... | |
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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 are... 
