 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 904 pages
...on which the people must often rely solely, in ail representative governments." The whole subject is too important, and the questions suggested by its...determining in advance the validity of every statute that inay be enacted under the commerce clause. We decide nothing more in the present case than that lottery... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1903 - 396 pages
...having for its docket title Champion v. Ames, No. 2, the United States Supreme Court held (188 US, 321) that lottery tickets are subjects of traffic among those who choose to buy and sell them, and their carriage by independent carriers from one State to another is, therefore,... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1904 - 174 pages
...As to commerce. Mr. Justice Harlan, in the Lottery Case, 2 cautiously said:— "The whole subject is too important, and the questions suggested by its...statute that may be enacted under the commerce clause." Nevertheless, after an extensive review of the cases from Gibbons v. Ogden* to Hanley v. Kansas City... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - Interstate commerce - 1905 - 542 pages
...419 (1827), 6 L. Ed. 678. important and the question suggested by its consideration tooditficult for solution, to justify any attempt to lay down a rule for determining in advance what could be enacted by congress under the commerce clause. See Lottery case, supra. The power of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Alcoholic beverage industry - 1906 - 340 pages
...may prohibit the carrying of lottery tickets from one State to another. * * * The whole subject is too important and the questions suggested by its consideration...subjects of traffic among those who choose to sell or bay them ; that the carriage of such tickets by independent carriers from one State to another is therefore... | |
 | Lester William Zartman - Life insurance - 1909 - 434 pages
...anticipating that some one might misconstrue the effect of the lottery decision, the Court said : " We decide nothing more in the present case than that...traffic among those who choose to sell or buy them; the carriage of such tickets by independent carriers from one state to another is, therefore, interstate... | |
 | Darwin Pearl Kingsley - Insurance, Life - 1911 - 456 pages
...Apparently anticipating that some one might misconstrue the effect of the lottery decision, the Court said : "We decide nothing more in the present case than that...traffic among those who choose to sell or buy them; the carriage of such tickets by independent carriers from one State to another is, therefore, interstate... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - Interstate commerce - 1912 - 842 pages
...prevailing opinion that the whole subject was too important, and the question suggested by its consideration too difficult of solution to justify any attempt to lay down a rule for determining in advance what legislation could be enacted under the commerce clause of the constitution.1 § 61. The supremacy... | |
 | Thomas Carl Spelling - Interstate commerce - 1912 - 332 pages
...District of Illinois dismissing a writ of habeas corpus sued out by the appellant Champion. It was held that: Lottery tickets are subjects of traffic among those who choose to buy and sell them, and their carriage by independent carriers from one State to another is therefore... | |
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The whole subject s too important, and the questions suggested by its consideration are too difficult of solution, to justify any attempt to lay down a rule for determining in advance the validity of every statute that may be enacted under the commerce... 
