 | United States. Supreme Court - 1941 - 844 páginas
...of the legal tests as to navigability. We are dealing here with the sovereign powers of the Union, the Nation's right that its waterways be utilized...the interests of the commerce of the whole country. It is obvious that the uses to which the streams may be put vary from the carriage of ocean liners... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors - 1942 - 1146 páginas
...of the legal tests as to navigability. We are dealing here with the sovereign powers of the Union, the Nation's right that its waterways be utilized...the interests of the commerce of the whole country. It is obvious that the uses to which the streams may be put vary from the carriage of ocean liners... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1977 - 1630 páginas
...purposes — hydroelectric, flood control, and navigation." Thus, "navigation-related" is an ambiguous 99 and vague term that somehow rests on, "the Nation's...project. Within S.790, there is further evidence that proprietorial concepts and powers have been confused and impermissibly mixed with regulatory (and revenue)... | |
 | United States. Federal Power Commission - 1935 - 1128 páginas
...Federal power over commerce must develop with the needs of commerce and is as broad as those needs; 2. The Nation's right that its waterways be utilized...the interests of the commerce of the whole country is inherent in its sovereign powers and navigability includes the feasibility of interstate use after... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources - 1998 - 356 páginas
...Article 1, § 8, Cl. 3. This power includes the power to regulate navigation so that waterways can be utilized for the interests of the commerce of the whole country. United States v. Appalachian Electric Power Co.. 311 US 377, (1940) . See also Gilman v. City of Philadelphia.... | |
| |
The navigability of the New river is, of course, a factual question but to call it a fact cannot obscure the diverse elements that enter into the application of the legal tests as to navigability. We are dealing here with the sovereign powers of the Union,... 