...an invalid usurpation of federal authority. The power to regulate interstate commerce, he wrote, is "complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...limitations, other than are prescribed in the Constitution." This understanding grants Congress a great deal of latitude in all commercial regulatory matters. Left...

...fulfilled Marshall's early reading, that the commerce power, "like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution."70 That an act of Congress will predictably have local effects as well as effects on...

...precise affinity" to an enumerated power stands in opposition to Marshall's argument that the power can "be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution."66 Although there can be no doubt that Madison would have agreed with the majority's...

...utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution. ... If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations, and...

...governed" (Gibbons, 196). Marshall continued, "[t]his power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges 3 In a widely noted article. Robert Gordon argued that historicism, which he defined as "the recognition...

...to John Marshall's decision in Gibbons v. Ogden: "The power, like all others vested in Congress is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution." The court did not have to accept Congress's word for it, but once the court had found that Congress...

...Marshall's well-known words from Gibbons v. Ogden, that the power of Congress over interstate commerce "is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution. ..." The opinion placed responsibility for assessing the motive and purpose of legislation with the...

...expressed by Chief Justice Marshall in these terms: "The power, like all others vested in Congress is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution." Gibbons v. Ogdes, 22 US 1, 196 (1824). Where in the constitution is immunity of the states "prescribed"?...

...commands of the Fifteenth Amendment.70 The power of Congress under the Fifteenth Amendment is one that is "complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution."71 This broad enforcement power is an important one, and generous judicial readings of...

...federal commerce power that was both vast and exclusive, explaining that the federal commerce power "is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution."17 The Chief Justice's vision of the commerce power provided a blueprint for the future,...