Establishing Rules of Interpretation Governing Questions of the Effect of Acts of Congress on State Laws: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 1, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session--Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - Exclusive and concurrent legislative powers |
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Page 108 - That nothing in this section shall be held to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the courts of the several States under the laws thereof...
Page 98 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States...
Page 154 - Act be construed as invalidating any provision of State law unless such provision is inconsistent with any of the purposes of this Act, or any provision thereof.
Page 115 - Congress did not merely lay down a substantive rule of law to be enforced by any tribunal competent to apply law generally to the parties. It went on to confide primary interpretation and application of its rules to a specific and specially constituted tribunal...
Page 105 - Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence...
Page 113 - But ever since Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1. the states have not been deemed to have authority to impede substantially the free flow of commerce from state to state, or to regulate those phases of the national commerce which, because of the need of national uniformity, demand that their regulation, if any, be prescribed by a single authority.
Page 105 - States, to print, publish, edit, issue, circulate, sell, distribute, or publicly display any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence...
Page 104 - Neither the holding of office nor membership in any Communist organization by any person shall constitute per se a violation of subsection (a) or subsection (c) of this section or of any other criminal statute.
Page 102 - This Court, in considering the validity of state laws in the light of treaties or federal laws touching the same subject, has made use of the following expressions: conflicting; contrary to; occupying the field ; repugnance ; difference ; irreconcilability ; inconsistency ; violation; curtailment; and interference. But none of these expressions provides an infallible constitutional test or an exclusive constitutional yardstick. In the final analysis, there can be no one crystal clear distinctly marked...
Page 154 - ... with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Senate, or the...