 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers - 1824 - 32 pages
...navjgalion. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...to other clauses to limit them. In the present case there is nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic; but it is something...nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches; and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...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, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...to other clauses, to limit them. In the present case, there is nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something...nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches ; and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...That commerce was traffic, but it was also something more, it was intercourse. It was descriptive of commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches, and was regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. That the mind could scarcely... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 718 pages
...Judge, presiding. GEORGE A. BARR, State's Attorney, (GARNSEY, WOOD & LENNON, of counsel,) for appellant: Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1865 - 384 pages
...to other clauses, to limit them. In the present case, there is nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something...nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches ; and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1868 - 384 pages
.... other clauses, to limit them. In the present case, there is nothing to justify such a limitation. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something...nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches ; and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 570 pages
...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 and parts of nations in all its branches, and is l 9 Wheaton's R. 189. regulated by prescribing rules for cawying on that intercourse. The mind... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 448. " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic," said Chief Justice Marshall, " but it is something more ; it is intercourse. it describes...nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." Unquestionably fermented,... | |
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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. 
