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Marshall states the economic and business reasons why the United States, of all countries, must depend upon commerce and the consequent necessity for the Jay Treaty.
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Beveridge discusses the economic necessity of commerce for the United States and the importance of the Jay Treaty.
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My God! what a situation has our country reached.
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Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.
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