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3260. FREE TRADE, Natural right of.—

The exercise of a free trade with all parts of
the world, possessed by the American Colonists,
as of natural right, and which no law
of their own had taken away or abridged,
was next the object of unjust encroachment.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 127. Ford ed., i, 432.
(1774)