exclusive legislative power
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 327 U.S. 558 - Sra v. State of Minnesota · 1946Most cited · 460 citing opinions
Exclusive legislative power is in essence complete sovereignty. That is, not only is the federal property immune from taxation because of the supremacy of the Federal Government but state laws, not adopted directly or impliedly by the United States, are ineffective to tax or regulate other property or persons upon that enclave.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “exclusive legislative power” — 457 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.