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The only supervision that may be exercised by a State over trade must be wholly confined to that State, absolutely without any connection whatever with intercourse with other States.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Beveridge asserts that state supervision of trade must be limited to intrastate activities.

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