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Were the Federal Government to exempt in express terms the imports, products, and manufactures of some portions of the country from all duties while it imposed heavy ones on others, the injustice could not be greater.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson argues against unequal taxation and its injustices in his State of the Union address.

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