Gibbons_Vs._Ogden

Gibbons Vs. Ogden Thomas Gibbons v. Aaron Ogden Gibbons: Challenged a New York state granted monopoly to Aaron Ogden by running two steamboats between New York and New Jersey. Ogden: Licensed to operate steamboats exclusively between New York and New Jersey. The Case: In the beginning of the 19th century, when the steamboat had just been invented, came a great legal battle. Robert Fulton, one inventor of the steamboat obtained exclusive rights from the state of New York to navigate his boats between Elizabethtown, New Jersey and New York City. Robert Fulton, granted one license to Aaron Ogden to which ambitious investors were jealous and challenged. Thomas Gibbons, held a federal coasting license, and ran competing vessels between New Jersey and New York, and challenged Aaron Ogden. At issue was a clause of Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution, which said Congress has the power to regulate commerce new, york, state, ogden, gibbons, between, power, aaron, supreme, national, court, commerce, states, pages, over, copyright, concurrent, challenged, university, thomas, steamboats, steamboat, said, robert, press, powers, oxford, one, monopoly, license, jersey, interstate, internet, granted, fulton, fully, federal, exclusive, congress, columbia, case, william, webster, vessels, very, united, unconstitutional, two, took