...American constitutional thinking. In Gibbons v Ogden Marshall CJ, describing the commerce clause, said "[t]his power, like all others vested in Congress,...acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the Constitution".30 He went on to say that "the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects,...

...foreign nations is the power "to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed;" that such power "is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution;" that "if, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects,...

...Justice Marshall, speaking for this court and defining the extent and nature of the commerce power, said, But it is the duty of the Court to be last, not first, to give them up. FREDERICK M. VINSON Yoimgs In other words, the power is one to control the means by which commerce is carried on, which is directly...

...Justice Marshall's opinion in Gibbons that the "power of Congress over interstate commerce is plenary and complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost...acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution."43 Thus, in Wickard, the Court held that Congress's interstate commerce power applied...