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- Level
- Legal authority
- Authority
- Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1 (1824)
- Issued
- 1824-03-02
- In force
- No start date could be read from the record.
- Character
- case
Operative words
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. (Gibbons, 22 U.S. at 189-90)... commerce: 2: the exchange or buying and selling of commodities on a large scale involving transportation from place to place (Merriam-Webster, page as captured Mar. 2020)... 1. The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale, as between cities or nations. (American Heritage, 5th ed.)
Notes
7.7 MB scan of the volume's opening; the quoted passage read at PDF pp. 189-190.