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The power over commerce, including navigation, was one of the primary objects for which the people of America adopted their government....
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The power over commerce, including navigation, was one of the primary objects for which the people of America adopted…”
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Beveridge emphasizes the importance of commerce in the formation of the American government.
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In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.
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