The scope of the Commerce Clause reached the Supreme Court in Gibbons v. Ogden, as various discrepancies involving a power struggle between the federal and state governments emerged. In 1824, a New York state law permitted individuals the exclusive right to operate steamboats …show more content…
Board of Wardens followed the framework of Gibbons v. Ogden, where the majority opinion determined that a Pennsylvania law requiring all ships entering or exiting the port of Philadelphia to employ a local pilot did not violate the Commerce Clause. Although the inclusion of navigation in the Commerce Clause has now been clearly defined, the “mere grant to Congress of the power to regulate commerce, did not deprive the States of power to regulate pilots…but to leave its regulation [of pilots] to the several States…(text, p. 331).” It was within this particular case that the Supreme Court granted power to the