intercourse
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Definitions from Case Law
From 48 U.S. 283 - George Smith v. William Turner Health-Commissioner of the Port of New York James Norris · 1849Most cited · 410 citing opinions
something more than "commerce", and would give to the general government a wider range of power over the States, no one, I am sure, will claim for this court the power to interpolate it, or to construe the Constitution as if it was found there.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “intercourse” — 407 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1849–1849
merely commercial transactions as generally understood, their argument is an unmeaning variation of words, and is worth nothing.