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Power Quotes by Robert Toombs
- Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
- Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon…
- We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions…
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