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Question: Gibbons v!. Ogden supreme court case!?
what was the issue it addressed!?
What did the court rulings decide, and how did it make its decision!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Gibbons v!. Ogden, 22 U!.S!. 1 (1824), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate navigation was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution!.

The case started from an attempt by the State of New York to grant a monopoly of steamboat operation between New York and neighboring New Jersey!. Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston were granted such exclusive rights!.
The Court found in favor of Gibbons, stating that "The mind can scarcely conceive a system for regulating commerce between nations which shall exclude all laws concerning navigation!." The ruling determined that "a Congressional power to regulate navigation is as expressly granted as if that term had been added to the word 'commerce'!."
The Court went on to conclude that Congressional power over commerce should extend to the regulation of all aspects of it, overriding state law to the contrary:
If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations and among the several states is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the Constitution of the United States!.Www@QuestionHome@Com