The Power to Regulate Corporations and Commerce: A Discussion of the Existence, Basis, Nature, and Scope of the Common Law of the United States (Classic Reprint)

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This book is an attempt to define the limits within which the governments of the several States and of the United States may secure freedom of trade by control of the persons and things engaged therein and to indicate the respective powers of the three depart ments of government in the exercise of such control. The relation of the three departments of the govern ment of the United States to one another and to those of the State governments in the control of interstate commerce and of corporations is set forth with refer ence to over two thousand cases involving questions of constitutional law.

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