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7602. RIGHTS, Invasions of.—[continued].

There are rights which
it is useless to surrender to the government,
and which governments have yet always
been found to invade. [Among] these
* * * is the right of free commerce.—
To David Humphreys. Washington ed. iii, 13. Ford ed., v, 89.
(P. 1789)