 | California. Supreme Court - 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...prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse." (9 Wheat. 189.) "Commerce," says Mr. Justice JOHNSON, "in its simplest signification, means an exchange... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1875 - 794 pages
...regulate commerce among the States, is undisputed. The celebrated case of Gibbons re. Ogden decided that "commerce undoubtedly is traffic," "but it is something more, it is intercourse." The bill does not attempt to regulate in any way telegraphic correspondence between offices in the... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1875 - 786 pages
...v. Holliday, 3 Wall. 416.) In the leading case of Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wh. 189, Ch. J. MARSHALL says: "Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse." Unless, then, there is something in the circumstances of the case or in the act, from which it appears... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1875 - 1182 pages
...t he United States in the case of Gibbous c«. Ogdeu,9 Wheatou, 1. In that case the court said that "Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more — it is intercourse;" and also said, "All America understands, and has uniformly understood, the word commerce to comprehend... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 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...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. ... It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 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 - 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 - 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...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. ... It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe... | |
 | William Henry Burroughs - 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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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. 
