 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...significations. Commerce, undoubted, is traffic, but it is something more: it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts...all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing mies for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce... | |
 | Albert P. Melone, Allan Karnes - Courts - 2008 - 724 pages
...Wheat.) 1 ( 1 824), is the seminal case defining commerce. Chief Justice Marshall held that commerce is intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and that Congress has plenary power to prescribe rules to carry out that intercourse. Navigation is part... | |
 | United States Department of Justice - 1899 - 438 pages
...traffic," said Chief Justice Marshall, "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 prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse." That which belongs to commerce is within the jurisdiction... | |
 | 1891 - 468 pages
...something more: ii is intercourse It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts ot nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that interc nirsé. The langu language last quoted was. used to refute the claim that the commerce contemplated... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 1350 pages
...Constitution, Chief Justice Marshall (in Gibbons vs. Ogden, 9 Wheat., page 1) declares — that it means commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and that the words used in the Constitution comprehend and have always beeu understood as embracing navigation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1352 pages
...tax on transportation of passengers and things within a State. Commerce is more than traffic, It is commercial Intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and includes navigation. It Is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that Intercourse, pp. 189,... | |
 | 1892 - 638 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... | |
 | United States - 1923 - 806 pages
...470. Veazle v. Moor, 14 How. 574. Commerce with foreign nations means trade and intercourse. It means commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches. Henderson v. New York, 92 US 270. US v. Holliday, 3 Wall. 417. The Brig Wilson r. US, 1 Brock. (US)... | |
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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 prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse. 
