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Supreme Court decides Gibbons v. Ogden

The U.S. Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Marshall, ruled that the federal government has authority to regulate interstate commerce and struck down a New York steamboat monopoly.

The decision significantly expanded federal power under the Commerce Clause, limiting state economic monopolies and shaping the constitutional balance between federal and state regulation.

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