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1387. COMMERCE, Control by Congress.—[continued].

I am much pleased with
the proposition to the States to invest Congress
with the regulation of their trade, reserving
its revenue to the States. I think it
a happy idea, removing the only objection
which could have been justly made to the
proposition. The time, too, is the present,
before the admission of the Western States.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. i, 347. Ford ed., iv, 52.
(P. 1785)