I come next to the right to regulate commerce, the third source from whence the right to make internal improvements is claimed.
The right to establish an uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws respecting bankruptcies seems to be essentially connected with the right to regulate commerce.
From this it appears that the three objects mentioned may be accomplished under the grant of either one of the two general powers, to lay duties, and to regulate commerce.
They were in favor of continuing the confederation with a slight enlargement of the powers of congress, so as to give that body the power to lay and collect taxes, and to regulate commerce.
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To guard against this very abuse, the constitution had confided to Congress the power to regulate commerce; the establishment of ports of entry formed a material part of this power, and one which required legislative enactment.
It contains no distinct and specific power, as every other grant does, such as to lay and collect taxes, to declare war, to regulate commerce, and the like.
Under the power to regulate commerce, Congress exercises the right of building and supporting light-houses.
The power to regulate commerce is vested in Congress, and by granting it to the President, do we not transfer to him one of the most important and delicate of the legislative powers?
How then has it happened that Congress has taken upon itself the right to erect light-houses, under their general power to regulate commerce?
Under the power to regulate commerce, Congress has exercised the power of erecting light-houses, as incident to that power, and fairly comprehended within it.
The States could still, each for itself, regulate commerce, and the consequence was a perpetual jarring and hostility of commercial regulation.
But Congress has authority also, and it is its duty, to regulate commerce, and it has the whole power of collecting duties on imports and tonnage.
How all this could be said, when the Constitution expressly gives to Congress the power to regulate commerce, both foreign and domestic, I cannot conceive.
Congress had No Power to Regulate Commerce, either with foreign countries or among the states themselves.
There is little doubt that the power to "regulate commerce" was intended originally to cover the collection of a national impost.
I therefore believe it is the duty of Congress, by virtue of this power, to regulate commerce, to prohibit, at once, slaves being used as articles of trade.
If any doubt ever existed as to the import of the phrase "to regulate commerce," it has been entirely removed by the decisions of the Supreme Court.
Classification of freight for transportation purposes is in terms recognized by the act to regulate commerce, and is therefore lawful.
Should any one state attempt to deny to the people of another state the privileges guaranteed by the constitution, then it would be the plain duty of congress to interfere and "regulate commerce" between these states.
Congress and the Supreme Court have adopted the construction of the act to regulate commerce, announced by Judge Jackson (Interstate Commerce Commission v.
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