| Law - 1916 - 506 pages
...expansion of the country, the multiplication of its products and the invention of railroads and locomotives by steam, land transportation has so vastly increased,...sounder consideration of the subject has prevailed, and has led to the conclusion that Congress has plenary power over the whole subject. Of course, the authority... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 2170 pages
...bridges, it would "be without authority to regulate one of the most important adjuncts of commerce. * * * Of course the authority of Congress over the territories...the United States, and its power to grant franchises exereisable therein are, and ever have been, undoubted. But the wider power was very freely exercised.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1172 pages
...consequence of the expansion of the country, the multiplication of its products, and the invention of railroads and locomotion by steam, land transportation...the United States, and its power to grant franchises exercisable therein, are, and ever have been, undoubted. But the wider power was very freely exercised,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 800 pages
...bridges, it would be without authority to regulate one of the most important adjuncts of commerce. . . . Of course the authority of Congress over the Territories...the United States and its power to grant franchises exercisable therein are, and ever have been, undoubted. But the wider power was very freely exercised,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1899 - 768 pages
...consequence of the expansion of the country, the multiplication of its products, and the invention of railroads and locomotion by steam, land transportation...the United States, and its power to grant franchises exercisable therein, are, and ever have been, undoubted. But the wider power was very freely exercised,... | |
| Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1252 pages
...consequence of the expansion of the country, the multiplication, of its products and the invention of railroads and locomotion by steam, land transportation...authority of congress over the territories of the Unites States, and its power to grant franchises exercisible therein, are, and ever have been, undoubted.... | |
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