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1408. COMMERCE, Individual enterprise and.—

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce,
and navigation, the four pillars of our
prosperity, are the most thriving when left
most free to individual enterprise. Protection
from casual embarrassments, however,
may sometimes be seasonably interposed.—
First Annual Message. Washington ed. viii, 13. Ford ed., viii, 123.
(Dec. 1801)