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1426. COMMERCE, The States and.—

As long as the States exercise, separately, those acts of power which respect foreign nations,
so long will there continue to be irregularities
committed by some one or other of
them, which will constantly keep us on an ill
footing with foreign nations.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. i, 531. Ford ed., iv, 192.
(P. Feb. 1786)