This Government, by our institutions, is charged with the maintenance of peace and the preservation of amicable relations with the nations of the earth, and ought to possess without question all the reasonable and proper means of maintaining the one and preserving the other.
Tyler asserts the government's responsibility to maintain peace and good relations with other nations.
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