The

Commercial Power
of Congress

Considered in the Light of its Origin

The Origin, Development, and Contemporary Interpretation of
the Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution, from
the New Jersey Representations, of 1778, to the
Embargo Laws of Jefferson's Second
Administration, in 1809.

By

David Walter Brown, Ph.D.

Of the New York Bar

Checked
May 1913

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press

1910

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PAGE

V

CHAPTER

I.

EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE COMMERCIAL

POWER OF CONGRESS. THE NEW

JERSEY REPRESENTATIONS

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IV.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE West, and

ITS EFFECT UPON THE MOVEMENT TO

ENLARGE THE COMMERCIAL POWER

OF CONGRESS

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VII.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

RELATION OF ITS WORK TO THE COM-

MERCIAL POWER OF CONGRESS

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