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The National power over navigation is not "incidental to that of regulating commerce; ... it is as the thing itself; inseparable from it as vital motion is from vital existence....
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The National power over navigation is not "incidental to that of regulating commerce; ... it is as the thing itself…”
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Beveridge emphasizes the essential connection between national power and the regulation of commerce in this statement.
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