 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.  Report of the Committee on Insurance Law - Page 26by American Bar Association. Committee on Insurance Law - 1905 - 32 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Marshall - Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers - 1824 - 25 pages
...navjgalion. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations, which shall exclude... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824
...undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more: it is intercourse. It describes the com1824. mercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations,...its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules fcr carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 736 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...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations, which shall exclude... | |
 | 1848
...something more ; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and paM" nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for reflating commerce between nations which shall eiclude... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 728 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...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations, which shall exclude... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 372 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...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations, which shall exclude... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 976 pages
...That commerce was traffic, but it was also something more, it was intercourse. It was descriptive of commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches, and was regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. That the mind could scarcely conceive... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864
...traffic ; but it is something more. It is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." Again : " These words comprehend every species of commercial intercourse between the United States... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910
...Judge, presiding. GEORGE A. BARR, State's Attorney, (GARNSEY, WOOD & LENNON, of counsel,) for appellant: Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 189; Groves v. Slaughter, 15 Pet. 511; Broien v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 436.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1865 - 372 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...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations, which shall exclude... | |
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