Ogden is the first of many landmark cases defining how businesses can and cannot behave in support of interstate commerce, and defining where the power of the Commerce Clause ends. Skip to main content. Search for:. Ogden: What is commerce and who controls it? Ogden The power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
Licenses and Attributions. Supreme Court. At the Court, Gibbons pointed to the fact that he obtained a license from the federal government to conduct his steamboat business between ports in New York and New Jersey in accordance with the federal Coasting Act of He argued that the monopoly maintained by New York law and the injunction granted by the New York court seemed to conflict with this act of Congress, and should be struck down in accordance with the Supremacy Clause.
A unanimous decision from the Supreme Court did just that. Chief Justice John Marshall spent a majority of the written opinion investigating whether or not Congress had the authority to regulate and license commercial maritime activity under the Commerce Clause. Marshall asserted that this kind of power is covered under the Commerce Clause because the Founders intended as much when they authored the Constitution.
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Supreme Court, which reviewed the case in Chief Justice John Marshall ruled for Gibbons, holding that New York's exclusive grant to Ogden violated the federal licensing act of In reaching its decision, the Court interpreted the Commerce Clause of the U.
Constitution for the first time. The clause reads that "Congress shall have power to regulate commerce Next, the Court examined the clause's phrase "commerce among the several States," concluding that the word "among" means "intermingled with. Under this interpretation of the Commerce Clause, Congress' clearly had the authority to regulate the commercial steamboat route between New York and New Jersey. It was assumed that the licensing act of did this and that the New York law in question was in conflict with it.
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