The decision states that it derives 'from those laws whose authority is acknowledged by civilized men throughout the world, wherever civilization exists.'
The decision states that it derives 'from those laws whose authority is acknowledged by civilized men throughout the world, wherever civilization exists.' John Marshall referred the plaintiff and defendant to the clauses in the Constitution that mandate federal and Congressional authority over state controls of commerce. This 1824 case began with a dispute over New York and New Jersey ship passage. FTP, name this influential case that asserted that a state cannot grant a monopoly on trade.
The decision states that it derives 'from those laws whose authority is acknowledged by civilized men throughout the world, wherever civilization exists.'
{Gibbons v. Ogden}