They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
Robert Toombs
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Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
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They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
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