If an English merchant, subscribing to this principle, goes to establish himself in a foreign country, he goes as an enemy, warranted, by the sanction of his own courts and Parliament, to do anything that can defraud its revenue.
Quincy argues that English merchants, influenced by their own laws, may act against foreign interests.
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