From the lighthouses: how the first federal internal improvement projects created precedent that broadened the commerce clause, shrunk the takings clause, and affected early nineteenth century constitutional debate.

From: Albany Law Review | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Grace, Adam S. | Copyright information

I will not go to a dictionary for the meaning of the word "regulate." I will go to the history of legislation, commencing with the foundation of this Government, and continued without interruption or objection, on constitutional principles, down to this day, to prove what the undoubted right of Congress, under the power in question, is.

Representative Jacob C. Isacks (Mar. 24, 1830). (1)

[The power to take private property] only appears a little novel, becaus...

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