GIBBONS VS. OGDEN 1824 PHOTO BY MICHAL MAŇAS (USER:SNEK01) / CC BY-SA 2.5 WHAT HAPPENED ¡ Aaron Ogden and Thomas Gibbons were partners operating steamboats ¡ Soon after their invention by Robert Livingston and Robert Fulton ¡ They broke up the partnership, and Ogden asked New York to restrain Gibbons from operating in New York, because he did not have a New York License ¡ Gibbons argued that because he had a federal license, he was still able to operate in New York waters ¡ New York sided with Ogden ¡ Gibbons appealed to the Supreme Court ¡ They eventually agreed to take the case ¡ IF THE SUPREME COURT SIDED WITH OGDEN, IT WOULD MEAN THAT WHEN A FEDERAL AND STATE LAW ARE IN CONFLICT, THE STATE LAW IS SUPREME. ¡ IF THE SUPREME COURT SIDED WITH GIBBONS, IT WOULD MEAN THAT WHEN A FEDERAL AND STATE LAW ARE IN CONFLICT, THE WHY IT MATTERED FEDERAL LAW IS SUPREME. HOW THEY RULED ¡ THE SUPREME COURT SIDED WITH GIBBONS ¡ THE CLAUSE IN THE CONSTITUTION IN QUESTION WAS THAT CONGRESS HAD THE POWER TO: ¡ REGULATE COMMERCE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS, AND AMONG THE SEVERAL STATES… ¡ THE SUPREME COURT JUDGED THAT THE WORD “AMONG” “MAY VERY PROPERLY BE RESTRICTED TO THAT COMMERCE WHICH CONCERNS MORE STATES THAN ONE”. SOURCES ¡ HTTPS://SAWILSQUA.WEEBLY.COM/GIBBONS-V- OGDEN.HTML ¡ HTTPS://WWW.LAW.CORNELL.EDU/SUPREMECOU RT/TEXT/22/1 ¡ HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/GIBBONS_V._O GDEN ¡ HTTPS://WWW.OURDOCUMENTS.GOV/DOC.PHP? FLASH=OLD&DOC=24 ¡ HTTPS://BILLOFRIGHTSINSTITUTE.ORG/EDUCATE/ EDUCATOR-RESOURCES/LESSONS- PLANS/LANDMARK-SUPREME-COURT-CASES- ELESSONS/GIBBONS-V-OGDEN-1824/ ¡ HTTPS://WWW.SUPREMECOURT.GOV/ABOUT/CO URTBUILDING.ASPX.