 | United States. Supreme Court, John Marshall - 1824 - 32 ページ
...navjgalion. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something...navigation, which shall be silent on the admission of the vessel» of the one nation into the ports of the other, and be confined to prescribing rules for the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1824 - 990 ページ
...navigation.. This would restrict a general term, applicable to. many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more: it is intercourse. It describes the com1824. mercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated... | |
 | 1826 - 506 ページ
...vs. O'den, 9 IVhcatnn. Rep. 93. And again, in the same case, he observes — "Commerce is undoubtedly traffic, but it is something more— it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between notions and parts of nations, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 326 ページ
..."commerce with the Indian tribes?" The Supreme Court have given an explanation of the phrase. They say, " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse." As used in the constitution, "it is a unit, every part of which is indicated by the term. It cannot... | |
 | 1848 - 780 ページ
...D»'ig»tion. This would restrict a general term applic* ble to many objects to one of its sigaificationi. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something...describes the commercial intercourse between nations and paM" nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1837 - 696 ページ
...R. 1. On that occasion, Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said; " commerce undoubtedly is traffic ; but it is something more. It is intercourse. It dcsc.ribcs the- commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all-its branches;... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 ページ
...navigation. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something...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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 ページ
...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 conceive... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 772 ページ
...from imposing a duty on imported goods." In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden, the court said : " Commerce is traffic ; but it is something more. It is intercourse....describes the commercial intercourse between nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse." Again... | |
 | Lewis Cass - 1856 - 96 ページ
...been added to the word "commerce" — as if the general power were to regulate navigation; and that the "mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating...commerce between nations, which shall exclude all idea concerning navigation," &c. And this construction has been fortified by the language of the Constitution... | |
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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. 
