...granted as if that term had been added to the word 'commerce.' " P. 193. What is this power? P. 196. It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. The gravamen in Gibbons v. Ogden was that the State of New York had by law interdicted steam vessels,...

...of congress must therefore be exercised within the territorial jurisdiction of the several states. What is this power? It is the power to regulate, that is, to prescribe, the rules by which commerce is governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in...

...several states and with the Indian tribes." This power to regulate, as Chief Justice Marshall has said, is " to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed." The reason why this clause was put into the Constitution was in order that citizens of the different...

...v. Ogden, the same Chief Justice said: "the power to regulate is to prescribe THE RULE by which the commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others...complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent * * * as absolutely as it would be in a single government having in its constitution the same restrictions...

...gave to Congress the power to regulate it." 9 Wheat. 211. In the same case he said that this power is " the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed." p. 196. It may be said, generally, that free commercial intercourse exists among the several States...

...construction. Said Chief-Justice Marshall, in the leading case of Gibbons vs. Ogden (9 Wheaton, 103): " It is the power to regulate ; that Is, to prescribe...which commerce Is to be governed. This power, like all other* vested in the Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges...

...power might be exercised being thus determined, it remained to inquire what the power was. It was a power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce was to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, was complete in itself, might be...

...respect to purely local or internal commerce." Chief Justice MARSHALL In Gibbons v. Ogden, supra, says: "We are now arrived at the inquiry, what is this power?...rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, 41ke all others vested in congress, ie complete in Itself ; may be exercised to its utmostextent; and...

..."power" is meant by this opinion of the Supreme Court? The words of the court in the quoted case are: "What is this power? It is the power to regulate—...prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. Now the court asks and answers the qnestion clearly and finally. " Again and again this highest court...

...never be excelled in its brevity, accuracy, and comprehensiveness. He says that " to regulate commerce is to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed." Commerce being intercourse and traffic between people, to regulate it is to prescribe rules by which...