The senseless and selfish nagging at trade in which the States indulged, after peace was declared, produced a brood of civil abuses as noisome as the military dangers which State control of troops had brought forth during the Revolution.
Beveridge criticizes the detrimental effects of state-level trade restrictions following the Revolutionary War.
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The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.
Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.
The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.
The passions of men stimulate them to avail themselves of the weakness of others.
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