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Thomas Gibbons Case Summary
The plaintiff (or petitioner) was Thomas Gibbons, owner of a rival steamboat company based i Elizabethtown, NJ. Gibbons was represented by one of the most famous lawyers of early America, Daniel Webster. Webster argued on behalf of Gibbons that the federal law was supreme above all state laws. Furthermore, the federal government's laws superseded state laws because of the Constitution's granted to Congress the right to control interstate

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