Gibbons v. Ogden · ¶59

. It has been contended by the counsel for the appellant, that, as the word “ tp regulate” implies in its nature, full power over the thing to be regulated, it excludes, necessarily,,.the. action of all others that would perform the same operation on the same thing. That regulation is designed for the entire result, applying to those parts which ré-main as they were, as well as to those whidh are altered. It produces a uniform whole, which is as much disturbed and deranged by changing what the. regulating power designs to leave untouched, as that on which it has operated.

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