...unanimously agreed. "Commerce," said the learned judge, "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...

...navigation. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating...

...Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2, Sec. 1061, it is stated that " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." ID Section 1064 it is laid down that " It may therefore be safely affirmed that the terms of the Constitution...

...navigation. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating...

...favored the most liberal construction which the terms of the constitution would admit of. " Commerce ... is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse...and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying ou that intercourse. ... It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce...

...traffic, but it is something more, it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. It has been truly said that commerce, as the word is used in the ConstituMon, is a unit, every part...

...was held void. Commerce, said the Chief-Justice, * (in substance) is not merely traffic ; it includes commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches. It must include navigation, not only because from the beginning, all have understood it, and Congress...

...referred to ; thus STORY, dissenting in the Miln Case (n Peters, 36 US 154-5), cites these sentences : — Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse: (9 Wheat, 22 I". S. i.Sg.) No sort of trade can be carried on between this country and any other, to...

...navigation. This would restrict a general term applicable to many objects to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescrib ing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating...

...It is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations ia all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. This power to regulate commerce is a very general one, and a wide latitude of construction has been...