...but exceedingly various subjects, quite unlike in their nature ; some imperatively demanding a single uniform rule, operating equally on the commerce of...deny that the nature of this power requires exclusive legislation by Congress, is to lose sight of the nature of the subjects of this power, and to assert...

...three years before that the issue was already settled. See supra notes 209, 221 and accompanying text. equally on the commerce of the United States in every...alone can meet the local necessities of navigation. . . . Whatever subjects of this power are in their nature national, or admit only of one uniform system,...

...the thorny conflict of national and state concerns, rejected Cooley's argument and upheld the law: Either absolutely to affirm, or deny that the nature of this power requires exclusive legislation by Congress, is to lose sight of the nature of the subjects of this power, and to assert...

...but exceedingly various subjects, quite unalike in their nature; some imperitively demanding a single uniform rule, operating equally on the commerce of...port; and some, like the subject now in question, as imperitively demanding that diversity, which alone can meet the local necessities of navigation.69...

...require a single uniform rule, but that there were others - he thought pilotage to be such a case - "imperatively demanding that diversity, which alone can meet the local necessities of navigation." Congress (which had deferred to the states on the subject of pilotage) was entitled to conclude that...

...but exceedingly various subjects, quite unlike in their nature; some imperatively demanding a single uniform rule, operating equally on the commerce of...alone can meet the local necessities of navigation." J. McLean and J. Wayne dissented. Note — The Court adopted a "selective exclusiveness doctrine" in...

...but exceedingly various subjects quite unlike in their nature, gome imperatively demanding a single uniform rule, operating equally on the commerce of...deny that the nature of this power requires exclusive legislation by Congress is to lose sight of the nature of the subjects of this power and to assert...

...but exceedingly various subjects, quite unlike in their nature; some imperatively demanding a single uniform rule, operating equally on the commerce of...alone can meet the local necessities of navigation. ** For those subjects of interstate commerce which are national in character, congressional power would...

...quite unlike in their nature; some imperatively demanding a single, uniform rule operating equally upon the commerce of the United States in every port, and some — like the subject (pilotage) now in question — as imperatively demanding that Opinion. diversity which alone can meet...