Gibbons v.Ogden
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- Aaron Ogden
- Hey, you can't be on these waters! You need a specific license to travel here!
- Im taking you to court!
- I have a federal license, it supersedes whatever license you have!
- New York, U.S.
- Thomas Gibbons
- Woo-hoo!
- New York Court of Errors
- This court finds in favor of Ogden.
- Damn! I'm taking this to the Supreme Court!
- U.S. Supreme Court
- I believe that I am right because New York state law declares that only steamboats with the Fulton-Livingston monopoly license can operate in state waters
- I believe that I am right because my license was granted by Congress, and gives me access to the country. Congress enacted this back in the late, 1700s, I shouldn't need another license.
- No!
- Chief Justice John Marshall
- The Supreme Court finds in favor of Thomas Gibbons, the Commerce Clause gives him right and supercedes state laws.
- All right!
- The United States Supreme Court had changed the way commerce was done throughout the country with their ruling of Gibbons v. Ogden
- I should get a federal license.
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