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1402. COMMERCE, Freedom of.—[continued].

Our interest will be to
throw open the doors of commerce, and to
knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom
to all persons for the vent of whatever
they may choose to bring into our ports, and
asking the same in theirs.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 412. Ford ed., iii, 279.
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