Chapter X

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, CONTINUED.--THE POWERS OF
CONGRESS.--THE GRAND COMPROMISES OF THE CONSTITUTION
RESPECTING COMMERCE, EXPORTS, AND THE SLAVE-TRADE.

General Principles of the Powers of Legislation 279, 280

Limitations 280

Exports and the Slave-Trade 281

Fitness and Unfitness of a Tax on Exports 282

Variety in the Exports of the United States 283

Impracticability of such a Tax 284

The Slave-Trade Controversy 285 _et seq._

How adjusted 289 _et seq._

Restrictions on the Revenue and Commercial Powers 289

Regulation of Commerce 291 _et seq._

Settlement of the Revenue and Commercial Powers 295 _et seq._

Proposition of Compromise 301

Arrangement of the Compromise 303

Value of the Compromise 307

Benefits of the Revenue and Commercial Powers 309