Brown v. Maryland

Brown v. Maryland

Decided March, 1827
Full case name Brown v. State of Maryland
Citations

25 U.S. 419 (more)

25 U.S. (12 Wheat.) 419 (1827).
Holding
Maryland’s a tax on imports interferes with the federal government's control of commerce with foreign nations.
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Marshall
Case opinions
Majority Marshall
Laws applied
Commerce Clause

Brown . Maryland, 25 U.S. (12 Wheat.) 419 (1827),[1] was a significant United States Supreme Court case regarding the definition of the Commerce Clause in Article 1 sec. 8, cl. 3 of the U.S. Constitution. The state of Maryland passed a law requiring importers of foreign goods to obtain a license for selling their products. Brown was charged under this law and appealed. Chief Justice John Marshall delivered the opinion of the court, ruling that Maryland's statute violated the commerce clause and the federal law was supreme. He alleged that the power of a state to tax goods did not apply if they remained in their "original package". A license tax on the importer was essentially the same as a tax on an import itself. Despite arguing the case for Maryland, future chief justice Roger Taney admitted that the case was correctly decided.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 25 U.S. 419 (Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com)
  2. ↑ Brown v. Maryland Overview Oxford Reference

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