Carroll v. Niagara Falls Mem. Med. Ctr.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that for the exercise of the commerce power, the navigable waters of the United States are to be deemed the “public property of the nation, and subject to all the requisite legislation by Congress”
• “Commerce includes navigation. The power to regulate commerce comprehends the control for that purpose, and to the extent necessary, of all the navigable waters of the United States which are accessible from a State other than those in which they lie.”
• describing broadly the philosophical underpinnings of the doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).