 | Lewis Hamilton Bond, United States. Circuit Court (6th Circuit) - 1872 - 526 ページ
...definition of commerce, as used in the constitution, is nearly equivalent to a demonstration. He says: "Commerce undoubtedly is traffic — but it is something more, it is intercourse." Is it not clear, that if a ferry-boat is used in carrying on both traffic and intercourse between States,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1873 - 740 ページ
...what amounts to a "regulation." "Commerce," says Marshall,. CJ, in Gibbons \. Ogden, "is undoubtedly traffic; but it is something more. It is intercourse....intercourse between nations and parts of nations in nil its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse." And again... | |
 | 1920 - 496 ページ
...Marshall, adopting Mr. Webster's view and construing the word "commerce" as used in the Constitution, said: "Commerce undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something...prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. It has been truly said that commerce, as the word is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part... | |
 | 1874 - 500 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...intercourse between nations and parts of nations in alt its branches, * * * Commerce, as the ivord is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1874 - 554 ページ
...objects, to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; ii is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its brandies. » * * Commerce, as the word is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part of which... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 562 ページ
...his opinion commerce was something more than traffic or the transportation of property. It was also " the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its brandies"; and it embraced, by necessary inference, all inter-State communications, and the whole subject... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1874 - 1332 ページ
...the United Statesiuthe case of Gibbous vs. Ogden, 9 Wheatou, I. In that case the court said that " Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more — it is intercourse;" and also said, "All America understands, aud has uniformly understood, the word commerce to comprehend... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1875 - 676 ページ
...Chief Justice MARSHALL, "undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it i8 intercourse. It is the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse." (9 Wheat. 189.) "Commerce," says Mr. Justice JOHNSON,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 568 ページ
...his opinion commerce was something more than traffic or the transportation of property. It was also "the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches"; and it embraced, by necessary inference, all inter-State communications, and the whole subject of intercourse... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1875 - 786 ページ
...v. Holliday, 3 Wall. 416.) In the leading case of Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wh. 189, Ch. J. MARSHALL says: "Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse." Unless, then, there is something in the circumstances of the case or in the act, from which it appears... | |
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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. 
