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Gibbons v. Ogden
22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1
Holding / constitutional rule
Read Congress’s commerce power to reach interstate navigation and invalidated a conflicting state-granted monopoly.
Why it matters
An early landmark defining federal commerce authority and conflicts between federal and state economic regulation.
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