Petroleum Investigation: Hearings, Sept. 17-22, 1934

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Página 463 - The genius and character of the whole government seem to be, that its action is to be applied to all the external concerns of the nation, and to those internal concerns which affect the states generally ; but not to those which are completely within a particular state, which do not affect other states, and with which it is not necessary to interfere for the purpose of executing some of the general powers of the government.
Página 829 - The President is authorized to prohibit the transportation in interstate and foreign commerce of petroleum and the products thereof produced or withdrawn from storage in excess of the amount permitted to be produced or withdrawn from storage by any state law or valid regulation or order prescribed thereunder, by any board, commission, officer, or other duly authorized agency of a state.
Página 258 - Commerce is a unit and does not regard State lines, and while under the Constitution interstate and intrastate commerce are ordinarily subject to regulation by different sovereignties, yet when they are so mingled together that the supreme authority, the Nation, can not exercise complete effective control over interstate commerce without incidental regulation of intrastate commerce, such incidental regulation is not an invasion of State authority or a violation of the proviso.
Página 458 - The subject to be regulated is commerce; and our Constitution being, as was aptly said at the Bar, one of enumeration and not of definition, to ascertain the extent of the power, it becomes necessary to settle the meaning of the word. The counsel for the appellee would limit it to traffic, to buying and selling, or the interchange of commodities, and do not admit that it comprehends navigation. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce...
Página 829 - National Industrial Recovery Act, being the Act of Congress of the United States of America, approved June sixteenth, nineteen hundred thirty-three, entitled "An Act to encourage National Industrial Recovery, to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful public works, and for other purposes...
Página 844 - ... (1) that employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, In the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection...
Página 829 - Secretary of State, have hereunto caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subscribed by the...
Página 458 - To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future time execute its powers would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules,. for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.
Página 455 - Confederation ; and, moreover, to legislate in all cases for the general interests of the Union, and also in those to which the States are separately incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation.