Holding and Rule (Marshall) 1. No. A state may not legislation inconsistent with federal law which regulates a purely internal affair regarding trade or the police power, or is pursuant to a power to regulate interstate commerce concurrent with that of Congress. 2. No. States do not have the power to regulate those phases of interstatc commerte which, bECause of the need af national uniformity, demand that their regulation, be prescribed by a single authority. 3. No. A state does not have the power to grant an exclusive right to the use of state navigable waters inconsistent with federal law. The laws of New York granting to Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton the exclusive right of ravigating state waters with steamboats are in collision with the acts of Congress. The acts of Congress under the Constitution regulating the coasting trade are supreme. State laws must yield to that supremacy, even though enacted in pursuance of powers acknowledged to remain in the States. A license, such as that granted to Gibhons, pursuant ta acts of Congress for regulating the coasting trade under the Commnerce Clause e of Article I confers a permission to carry on that trade. The power to regulate coimmerce extends to every type of commercial intercourse between the United States and forcign nations and among the States. The commerce power includes the regulation of navigation, including navigation exclusively for the transportation of passengers. It exterds to Vessels propelled by steam or fire as well as to wind and sails! The power to regulate commerce is general, and has no limitations other than those prescribed in the Constitution itself. It is exclusively vested in Congress and no part of it can be exercised by a State.
Holding and Rule (Marshall) 1. No. A state may not legislation inconsistent with federal law which regulates a purely internal affair regarding trade or the police power, or is pursuant to a power to regulate interstate commerce concurrent with that of Congress. 2. No. States do not have the power to regulate those phases of interstatc commerte which, bECause of the need af national uniformity, demand that their regulation, be prescribed by a single authority. 3. No. A state does not have the power to grant an exclusive right to the use of state navigable waters inconsistent with federal law. The laws of New York granting to Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton the exclusive right of ravigating state waters with steamboats are in collision with the acts of Congress. The acts of Congress under the Constitution regulating the coasting trade are supreme. State laws must yield to that supremacy, even though enacted in pursuance of powers acknowledged to remain in the States. A license, such as that granted to Gibhons, pursuant ta acts of Congress for regulating the coasting trade under the Commnerce Clause e of Article I confers a permission to carry on that trade. The power to regulate coimmerce extends to every type of commercial intercourse between the United States and forcign nations and among the States. The commerce power includes the regulation of navigation, including navigation exclusively for the transportation of passengers. It exterds to Vessels propelled by steam or fire as well as to wind and sails! The power to regulate commerce is general, and has no limitations other than those prescribed in the Constitution itself. It is exclusively vested in Congress and no part of it can be exercised by a State.
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