Brown v. Maryland

Citations

25 U.S. 419
6 L. Ed. 678
12 Wheat. 419
1827 U.S. LEXIS 398

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recognizing that the foreign- commerce power is in “the control” of “a single [federal] government”
reading Import- Export Clause to prohibit state laws imposing duties on “importations from a sister State”
reasoning that “the taxing power of the States must have some limits” and that “[i]t cannot reach and restrain the action of the national government within its proper sphere” or “restrain the operation of any law which Congress may constitutionally pass”
noting presumption of constitutionality favors every legislative act and burden of proof rests on person denying act’s constitutionality
reasoning that “the taxing power of the States must have some limits” and that “[i]t cannot reach and restrain the action of the national government within its proper sphere” or “restrain the operation of any law which Congress may constitutionally pass”
reading Import- Export Clause to prohibit state laws imposing duties on “importations from a sister State”

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Judges: Thompson, Marshall

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