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3492. GOVERNMENT, De Facto.—

There
are some matters which, I conceive, might be
transacted with a government de facto; such,
for instance, as the reforming the unfriendly
restrictions on our commerce and navigation.—
To Gouverneur Morris. Washington ed. iii, 489. Ford ed., vi, 131.
(Pa., Nov. 1792)