GIBBONS VS. OGDEN1824

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WHAT HAPPENED

¡ Aaron Ogden and Thomas Gibbons were partners operating steamboats

¡ Soon after their invention by Robert Livingston and Robert Fulton

¡ They broke up the partnership, and Ogden asked New York to restrain Gibbons from operating in New York, because he did not have a New York License

¡ Gibbons argued that because he had a federal license, he was still able to operate in New York waters

¡ New York sided with Ogden

¡ Gibbons appealed to the Supreme Court

¡ They eventually agreed to take the case

WHY IT MATTERED

¡ IF THE SUPREME COURT SIDED WITH OGDEN, IT WOULD MEAN THAT WHEN A FEDERAL AND STATE LAW ARE IN CONFLICT, THE STATE LAW IS SUPREME.

¡ IF THE SUPREME COURT SIDED WITH GIBBONS, IT WOULD MEAN THAT WHEN A FEDERAL AND STATE LAW ARE IN CONFLICT, THE FEDERAL LAW IS SUPREME.

HOW THEY RULED

¡ THE SUPREME COURT SIDED WITH GIBBONS

¡ THE CLAUSE IN THE CONSTITUTION IN QUESTION WAS THAT CONGRESS HAD THE POWER TO:¡ REGULATE COMMERCE

WITH FOREIGN NATIONS, AND AMONG THE SEVERAL STATES…

¡ THE SUPREME COURT JUDGED THAT THE WORD “AMONG” “MAY VERY PROPERLY BE RESTRICTED TO THAT COMMERCE WHICH CONCERNS MORE STATES THAN ONE”.

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