The Essentials of American Constitutional Law

by Francis Newton Thorpe

[130] Art. vi., 2.

[131] Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 177 (1803).

[132] McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheaton, 430 (1819).

[133] Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheaton, 419 (1827).

[134] Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheaton, 1 (1824).

[135] Pensacola Telegraph Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 96 U. S., 1 (1877).

[136] So in Gibbon v. Ogden, supra.

[137] Henderson v. Mayor of New York, 92 U. S., 259 (1875); L. S. & M. S. Railway Co. v. Ohio, 173 U. S. (1899); Railroad Co. v. Husen, 95 U. S., 465 (1877); Brimmer v. Rebman, 138 U. S., 78 (1891); Morgan’s S. S. Co. v. Louisiana Board of Health, 118 U. S., 455 (1886); Leisy v. Hardin, 135 U. S., 100 (1890); Schellenberger v. Pennsylvania, 171 U. S., 1 (1898).

[138] The trend of these respective lines is disclosed by the decisions in the cases cited in this Chapter.

[139] Pensacola Telegraph Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 96 U. S., 1 (1877). The important word here is “jurisdiction.” “To bring the transportation within the control of the State, as part of its domestic commerce, the subject transported must be within the entire voyage under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State.” Hanley v. Kansas City Southern Railroad Co., 187 U. S., 617 (1903). The Immigration Law (February 20, 1897, amended March 26, 1910), contains the protective features the State would demand through exercise of its police power. So too the Federal Meat Inspection Act (March 4, 1907).