...and to those who pass involuntarily." Marshall also declared that the federal power over commerce "is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations." It is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a unitary government in which there was no...

...nations is the power "to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed;" that such power "is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution;" that "if, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects,...

...Marshall CJ, describing the commerce clause, said "[t]his 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".30 He went on to say that "the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects,...

...state which has elected to leave them unregulated. The power of Congress over interstate commerce "is shifted from domestic problems, centered in the 'thirties around slump, to by the Constitution." Gibbons v. Ogden, supra. That power can neither be enlarged nor diminished by...

...Justice Marshall's opinion in Gibbons that the "power of Congress over interstate commerce is plenary and complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution."43 Thus, in Wickard, the Court held that Congress's interstate commerce power applied...