 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
 | Law - 1920 - 496 pages
...Marshall, adopting Mr. Webster's view and construing the word "commerce" as used in the Constitution, said: "Commerce undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. It has been truly said that commerce, as the word is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1874 - 554 pages
...objects, to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; ii is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its brandies. » * * Commerce, as the word is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part of which... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...his opinion commerce was something more than traffic or the transportation of property. It was also " the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its brandies"; and it embraced, by necessary inference, all inter-State communications, and the whole subject... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 676 pages
...Chief Justice MARSHALL, "undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it i8 intercourse. It is the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse." (9 Wheat. 189.) "Commerce," says Mr. Justice JOHNSON,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 568 pages
...his opinion commerce was something more than traffic or the transportation of property. It was also "the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches"; and it embraced, by necessary inference, all inter-State communications, and the whole subject of intercourse... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1876 - 536 pages
...favored the most liberal construction which the terms of the constitution would admit of. " Commerce ... is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. ... It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed.... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1876 - 534 pages
...favored the most liberal construction which the terms of the constitution would admit of. " Commerce ... is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its brandtes, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. ... It is the power... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 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... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1877 - 538 pages
...favored the most liberal construction which the terms of the constitution would admit of. " Commerce ... is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. ... It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed.... | |
 | William Henry Burroughs - Local taxation - 1877 - 970 pages
...constitutional provision the following propositions : That commerce is something more than traffic; it includes commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches, and comprehends navigation ; * it includes all sorts of trade that can be carried on between this country... | |
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