Gibbons Vs. Ogden, 1824

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control. The Supreme Court also said that the New York Steamboat Act was in conflict with the Federal Coasting Act, and thus, the New York law had to be repealed. This decision managed to both protect the interests of the Southern Slavers and save the Nation's Economic structure from the whims of the states, fostering immense growth that would allow America to dominate as a world power.
The situation leading to the hearing of the case in the Supreme Court began when Thomas Gibbons was persecuted by his competitor, Aaron Ogden, because he broke the New York Steamboat Act by navigating the Hudson River without a proper New York License. However, Ogden had the required License, so he was given the free reign of a monopoly after Gibbons was restricted from the New York waterways. Gibbons demanded that the New York License was wholly unnecessary the piloting of ships in New York waters. Gibbons justified this furthermore by stating that he already had a Federal license that met the ...

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the ability to "levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do to all other acts and things which independent States may of right do," and thus, New York made its Legislature the supreme power, as opposed to allowing the National Legislature to hold that place. The Sectionalist movement of New York had to be ended before it could grow out of control and turn New York totally sovereign and spread the poisonous vices of sectionalism throughout the country, breaking it apart and dissolving any power that it had gained previously through unity. Recognizing this, John Marshall and the other Judges were determined to end the belligerence of New York.
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