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7613. RIGHTS, Suppression of.—

It is
impossible the world should continue long insensible

to so evident a truth as that the right to have commerce and intercourse with our
neighbors is a natural right. To suppress
this neighborly intercourse is an exercise of
force, which we shall have a just right to remove
when the superior force.—
To T. M. Randolph. Washington ed. iii, 146. Ford ed., v, 174.
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