...meaning of the word. The counsel for the appellee would limit it to traffic, to buying and selling, or the interchange of commodities, and do not admit that...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribed rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating...

...favored the most liberal construction which the terms of the constitution would admit of. " Commerce ... is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse...and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying ou that intercourse. ... It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce...

...in the leading case of Gibbons v. Ogrfcn, 22 US 9 Wheat. 192 (6 L. cd. 23): " Commerce uudoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more, it is intercourse....describes the commercial intercourse between nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. It has...

...and selling or interchange of commodities, and did not comprehend navigation. Such an interpretation would restrict a general term, applicable to many...to one of its significations. Commerce undoubtedly was traffic ; but it was something more, it was intercourse. Navigation, as one of the means through...

...was held void. Commerce, said the Chief-Justice, * (in substance) is not merely traffic ; it includes commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations, in all its branches. It must include navigation, not only because from the beginning, all have understood it, and Congress...

...meaning of the word. The counsel for the appellee would limit it to traffic, to buying and selling, or the interchange of commodities, and do not admit that...nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescrib ing rules for carrying on that intercourse. The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating...

...navigation. (18 Howard, 421.) Says Story, volume 2, page 4: Commerce undoubtedly is traffic; but itis something more. It is intercourse. It describes the...commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations ia all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse. This power...

...case of Gibbons vs. Ogden (9 Wheat., first volume). Me upheld the power of Congress to provide for ' commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches.' Navigation was embraced, according to that decision, within the words of the Constitution. There was...

...meaning of the word] commerce to traffic, to buying and selling, or the interchange of commodities. * * * This would restrict a general term applicable to many...intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse of nations in all its branches. * * * The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce...

...v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 419, 448. " Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic," said Chief Justice Marshall, "but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes...all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rifles for carrying on that intercourse." Unquestionably, fermented, distilled or other intoxicating...