Definition of Commerce in Gibbons v. Ogden, (1824)
Chief Justice Marshall wrote: "The subject to be regulated is commerce, and our Constitution being, as was aptly said at the bar, one of enumeration, and not of definition, to ascertain the extent of the power, it becomes necessary to settle the meaning of the word . . . 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. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations which shall exclude all laws concerning navigation, which shall be silent on the admission of the vessels of the one nation into the ports of the other, and be confined to prescribing rules for the conduct of individuals in the actual employment of buying and selling or of barter."
Case Citation:
Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 US 1 (1824)
Gibbons v. Ogden -- interstate commerce
It maintained that only Congress could regulate commerce between states.
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They both gave more power to the federal government instead of the individual states
There was no dissenting opinion in Gibbons v. Ogden,which received a unanimous vote of 6-0*; however, Justice William Johnson wrote a concurring opinion in order to present points not specifically covered in Marshall's writing.Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 US 1 (1824)For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Gibbons v. Ogden
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regulating commerce under one uniform law
ruling* Gibbons v. Ogden*
Gibbons v. Ogden -- interstate commerce
Commerce power to include all commercial interactions
Gibbons v. Ogden
The Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden in 1824 was won by Thomas Gibbons. The Court ruled that the federal government had the exclusive right to regulate interstate commerce, which invalidated a New York state law that granted a monopoly to Aaron Ogden for steamboat operations. This decision reinforced the power of the federal government over states in matters of commerce.
The case changed history by giving defined borders for implied powers in the Constitution. Gibbons v. Ogden specifically invoked the Interstate Commerce Clause for the first time.Case Citation:Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 US 1 (1824)
The Interstate Commerce Act
Gibbons v. Ogden is the name of the case that resulted in the Supreme Court in a ruling that grants Congress board powers over interstate commerce.
Gibbons v. Ogden