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5425. MONOPOLY, Commerce and.—[further continued].

Nor should we wonder
at * * * [the] pressure [for a fixed constitution
in 1788-9] when we consider the
monstrous abuses of power under which
* * * [the French] people were ground
to powder; when we pass in review the
* * * shackles on commerce by monopolies.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 118.
(1821)