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You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased , nor how you are to
become a great and powerful people , but how your liberties can be secured ; for
liberty ought to be the direct end of your government . Having premised these
things ...
You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased , nor how you are to
become a great and powerful people , but how your liberties can be secured ; for
liberty ought to be the direct end of your government . Having premised these
things ...
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... the control of our customhouses , and the whole regulation of trade , shall be
given to Congress ; and that Virginia shall depend on Congress even for
passports , till Virginia shall have paid the last farthing , and furnished the last
soldier .
... the control of our customhouses , and the whole regulation of trade , shall be
given to Congress ; and that Virginia shall depend on Congress even for
passports , till Virginia shall have paid the last farthing , and furnished the last
soldier .
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Our export trade is entirely in the hands of foreigners . We have no manufactures
- depend for supplies on other nations , and so far are we from having any
carrying trade , that , as I have already said , our exports are in the hands of
foreigners ...
Our export trade is entirely in the hands of foreigners . We have no manufactures
- depend for supplies on other nations , and so far are we from having any
carrying trade , that , as I have already said , our exports are in the hands of
foreigners ...
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Thus , for the want of a navy , are we deprived of the multifarious advantages of
our natural situation ; nor is it possible , that if the union is dissolved , we ever
should have a navy sufficient either for our defence or the extension of our trade .
Thus , for the want of a navy , are we deprived of the multifarious advantages of
our natural situation ; nor is it possible , that if the union is dissolved , we ever
should have a navy sufficient either for our defence or the extension of our trade .
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... that Great Britain might engross our trade on her own terms : that the imbecility
and inefficacy of our general government were such , that it was impossible we
could counteract her policy , however rigid or illiberal towards us , her
commercial ...
... that Great Britain might engross our trade on her own terms : that the imbecility
and inefficacy of our general government were such , that it was impossible we
could counteract her policy , however rigid or illiberal towards us , her
commercial ...
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