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Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

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Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) read the commerce clause broadly, giving the national government authority over interstate commerce.

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A federal license beat a state-granted steamboat monopoly on a route between two states.

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The broad reading is the doorway through which much later national regulation walked.