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7291. REPRISAL, Congress and.—

If
the case were important enough to require
reprisal, and ripe for that step, Congress must
be called on to take it; the right of reprisal
being expressly lodged with them by the Constitution,
and not with the Executive.—
Opinion on the “Little Sarah”. Washington ed. vii, 628. Ford ed., vi, 259.
(1793)