Chapter IV

ORIGIN AND NECESSITY OF THE POWER TO REGULATE COMMERCE.

Inability of the Confederation to manage Foreign Commerce 276

Essential that it should be managed by the United States 277

Views of the Revolutionary Statesmen 277, 278

Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign
Countries 279

Negotiation of the Treaty with the Netherlands 280

Duties and Imposts 281

Congress without Power to enforce Treaty Stipulations upon
the States 282

Relations of the United States with Great Britain 282

Measure of Mr. Pitt 282

Change of the English Administration 283

Mr. Pitt's Bill 283

Views of the New English Administration 283, 284

American Trade excluded from the British West Indies 284

The three great Branches of American Commerce 285

Congress apply to the States for further Powers 286

Action of the States thereupon 286

Success of Treaties dependent on the Grant of further Powers 287

Incongruities in the Grants of the several States 288

Failure of the Attempt to negotiate Commercial Treaties 289

Discordant Legislation of the States 290