Although admitting, after examining 1799 quarantine laws and 1803 slave prohibitions, that there was some degree of "concurrent power" of states and congress, it contends that a "strict constructionist" interpretation of the constution would "cripple the government.
Although admitting, after examining 1799 quarantine laws and 1803 slave prohibitions, that there was some degree of "concurrent power" of states and congress, it contends that a "strict constructionist" interpretation of the constution would "cripple the government." This decision noted a neighboring state's law mandating treble damages for the alleged violation of rights, although one doubts whether a New Jersey court could order damages from another state for violating the federal constitution. Since Congress was explicitly given the power to regulate, "among the several states," all forms of commerce, then the federal government must have exclusive province over navigation. Cornelius Vanderbilt was the pilot of the vessel at the center of, for ten points, what 1824 decision in favor of a steamboat owner challenging a New York state law regulating travel?
Although admitting, after examining 1799 quarantine laws and 1803 slave prohibitions, that there was some degree of "concurrent power" of states and congress, it contends that a "strict constructionist" interpretation of the constution would "cripple the government.
Gibbons v. Ogden [accept either or both party names in any order]