Gibbons v. Ogden · ¶103

As early as 1778, the subject had been pressed upon the attention of Congress, by a memorial from the State of New-Jersey; and in 1781, we find a resolution presented to that body, by one of the most elilighteped men of his day, affirming, that “it is indispensably necessary, that the United States, in Congress assembled, should bevested with a right of superintending the commercial re-

U. S. Reports, bound volume
U. S. Reports, volume 22, at 1 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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