Business Quote by Thomas Jefferson

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited…

— Clarence Thomas

Congress has broad powers to regulate and control commerce. Congress also cannot force a state to 'un-decriminalize' something; states' rights are routinely upheld by…

— Matt Gaetz

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

— Robert Toombs

It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing,…

— James Madison

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as…

— John C. Calhoun

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…

— Joseph Story

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all…

— Andrew Jackson

State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are…

— John Marshall

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects,…

— James Madison

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution,…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock