... in favor of the federal government. First and foremost, human beings are not commerce. Unlike boxes and crates, human beings are not stored in the bottom of ships and moved across rivers and oceans, and human beings are not packaged and traded, so they are not commerce. Since this is the case, the federal government has no Constitutional control over the ... movement of people via steamboats and therefore should not involve themselves in this state matter. In Joseph Cotton's book, "The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall," he explains that, "the doctrine of Gibbons v. Ogden that t...

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... to end the lawsuit filed from the three victims of the traffic stop. They sued accusing the troopers of shooting at them without provocation (Jet 2001). Soon after, Colonel Carson Joseph Dunbar Jr., the first black New Jersey State Police Superintendent and former member of the FBO offered his apology to the four motorists or anyone who has been a victim of ... and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. This type of Bill has sat on Capitol Hill for years but the Justice Department has done little to help these mistreatments across the country. Ashcroft said that if congress d...

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