Congressional Serial Set, Issue 6365U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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INTERSTATE - COMMERCE ACT . The epoch - making labors of the Interstate Commerce Commission illustrate the same principle and are too familiar to require special notice here . It is sufficient to note that the recent decisions of the ...
INTERSTATE - COMMERCE ACT . The epoch - making labors of the Interstate Commerce Commission illustrate the same principle and are too familiar to require special notice here . It is sufficient to note that the recent decisions of the ...
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... Commerce Commission to make reasonable rates and to prescribe the manner in which accounts should be kept by interstate carriers . " 5 On the side of the establishment of standards the principle is also illustrated by the powers of the ...
... Commerce Commission to make reasonable rates and to prescribe the manner in which accounts should be kept by interstate carriers . " 5 On the side of the establishment of standards the principle is also illustrated by the powers of the ...
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... commerce , in the language of Johnson , J. , in the Gibbons case , " amounts to nothing more than a power to limit ... commerce . ( S. , 150. ) The Gibbons case defines the power to regulate as the power to prescribe the rule by which ...
... commerce , in the language of Johnson , J. , in the Gibbons case , " amounts to nothing more than a power to limit ... commerce . ( S. , 150. ) The Gibbons case defines the power to regulate as the power to prescribe the rule by which ...
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... commerce . If no distinction between this bill and the Wilson Act may rest on the ground that the bill goes farther ... commerce among the States . " In the Addyston case ( 175 U. S. , 211 ) the power of Congress is affirmed to regulate ...
... commerce . If no distinction between this bill and the Wilson Act may rest on the ground that the bill goes farther ... commerce among the States . " In the Addyston case ( 175 U. S. , 211 ) the power of Congress is affirmed to regulate ...
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... commerce , Indian commerce , and domestic interstate commerce . No authority has been cited for such a distinction , and it is to be doubted whether one does or can exist . The grant is that power is given " to regulate com- merce with ...
... commerce , Indian commerce , and domestic interstate commerce . No authority has been cited for such a distinction , and it is to be doubted whether one does or can exist . The grant is that power is given " to regulate com- merce with ...
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Page 6 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Page 10 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 3 - Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power...
Page 11 - ... a like and contemporaneous service In the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which Is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 7 - Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled by even a consensus of present public opinion, for it is the peculiar value of a written constitution that it places in unchanging form limitations upon legislative action and thus gives a permanence and stability to popular government which otherwise would be lacking.
Page 6 - ... the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States...
Page 3 - I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States.
Page 5 - The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex-post-facto laws, and the like.
Page 19 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 12 - ... no vessel shall be granted clearance papers pending the determination of the question of the liability to the payment of such fine, and in the event such fine is imposed, while it remains unpaid, nor shall such fine be remitted or refunded: Provided, That clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such questions upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine and costs, such sum to be named by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.