Gibbons v. Ogden · ¶50

In our complex system, presenting the rare and difficult scheme of one general government, whose fiction extends over the whole, but whicli possesses only certain enumerated powers; and of nufñe-rous State governments, which retain and exercise all powers not delegated to the Union, contests re^-specting power must arise. Were it even otherwise, the measures taken by the respéctive governments to execute their acknowledged powers, would often be of the same description, and might, sometimes, interfere. This, however, dbes not' prove that the one is exercising, or has a right to exercise, the powers of the other.

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