| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) : illustrations, map |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Steam power and patent law development in the Eighteenth Century -- Origins of the Fulton-Livingston monopoly -- Corporate negotiations -- Defending the monopoly -- Interstate competition -- Personal rivalries and lawsuits -- The road to the U.S. Supreme Court -- Strategies and deliberations -- The Gibbons decision and popular reaction -- The decline of the New York steamboat monopoly. |
| Summary |
Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce. Decided in 1824, Gibbons v. Ogden arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines over passenger and freight routes between the neighboring states of New York and New Jersey. But what began as a local dispute over the right to ferry the paying public from the New Jersey shore to New York City soon found its way into John Marshall's court and constitutional history. The case is consistently ranked as one of the twenty most significant Supreme Court decisions and is still taught in constitutional law courses, cited in state and federal cases, and quoted in articles on constitutional, business, and technological history. Gibbons v. Ogden initially attracted enormous public attention because it involved the development of a new and sensational form of technology. To early Americans, steamboats were floating symbols of progress -- cheaper and quicker transportation that could bring goods to market and refinement to the backcountry. A product of the rough-and-tumble world of nascent capitalism and legal innovation, the case became a landmark decision that established the supremacy of federal regulation of interstate trade, curtailed states' rights, and promoted a national market economy. The case has been invoked by prohibitionists, New Dealers, civil rights activists, and social conservatives alike in debates over federal regulation of issues ranging from labor standards to gun control. This lively study fills in the social and political context in which the case was decided -- the colorful and fascinating personalities, the entrepreneurial spirit of the early republic, and the technological breakthroughs that brought modernity to the masses. - Publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gibbons, Thomas, 1757-1826 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Gibbons, Thomas, 1757-1826. |
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Ogden, Aaron, 1756-1839 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Ogden, Aaron, 1756-1839. |
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Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815. |
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Gibbons, Thomas, 1757-1826 -- Trials, litigation, etc. |
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Ogden, Aaron, 1756-1839 -- Trials, litigation, etc. |
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Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 -- Trials, litigation, etc. |
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USA -- Oberster Gerichtshof. |
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Interstate commerce -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Interstate commerce -- Law and legislation. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Inland navigation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Inland navigation -- Law and legislation. |
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Steamboats -- Law and legislation -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Steamboats -- Law and legislation. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1824 |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Gibbons versus Ogden, law, and society in the early republic |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Cox, Thomas H. Gibbons v. Ogden, law, and society in the early republic. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009012770 (OCoLC)230199108 |
| ISBN |
9780821443330 (electronic book) |
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082144333X (electronic book) |
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9780821418451 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0821418459 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780821418468 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0821418467 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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