All the debates of that convention show conclusively and overwhelmingly that there was not a man in that body. not a single man in the convention of 1787. who did not insist that section 8 of Article I of the Constitution. giving Congress the power to regulate trade with foreign countries. should be placed there upon the distinct understanding that it was to enable Congress to pass a protectivetariff law. What for? Why. sir. forthe purpose of excluding the cheap products of the pauper labor of the Old World. It was for the purpose of giving American labor a chance against foreign labor. Now. the first law passed under the Constitution of 1789 was a protectivetariff law. which was signed by George Washington.
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