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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...before it becomes an article of foreign commerce, or of commerce among the states, and prepare it for that purpose. They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embraces everything within the territory of a state, not surrendered to the general government; all which can be most advantageously exercised by the states themselves. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and those which respect turnpike-roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. And in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 629, the same great judge said: That the framers of the constitution did not intend to restrain the states in the regulation of their civil institutions, adopted for internal government, and that k 251. Opinion of the Court. the instrument they have given us is not to be so construed may be admitted. That there should be limitations upon the right to employ children in mines and factories in the interest of their own and the public welfare, all will admit. That such employment is generally deemed to require regulation is shown by the fact that the brief of counsel states that every State in the Union has a law upon the subject, limiting the right to thus employ children. In North Carolina, the State wherein is located the factory in which the employment was had in the present case, no child under twelve years of age is permitted to work. It may be desirable that such laws be uniform, but our Federal Government is one of enumerated powers; this principle, declared Chief Justice Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, 4. Wheat. 316, is universally admitted. A statute must be judged by its natural and reasonable effect. Collins v. New...