Chapter XXXII

§1. From what arose the necessity of the power to regulate foreign commerce? What was the British policy?

§2. In what consisted the inequality of trade between the two countries?

§3. Show, by example, how Great Britain secured a home market for her agricultural products.

§4. What other benefits did she derive from her policy?

§5. Why were we obliged to submit to the payment of these duties? Why not manufacture for ourselves?

§6. Why did not our government retaliate by imposing like duties upon British goods and vessels?

§7. What are duties designed to encourage home manufactures called?

§8. Show, by example, the operation and effect of a protective duty.

§9. By what other power may this object be partially effected? Show how.

§10. Why, then, was not one of these powers sufficient?

§11. Show, by example, why the free importation of foreign goods and direct taxation are not deemed the better policy.

§13. How early, and how, was domestic industry encouraged? What rendered high duties for a time unnecessary?

§14. What afterwards made it necessary for congress to exercise more extensively its powers to regulate trade? When did the system of protection properly commence? Where has since been the principal market for agricultural products?

§15. Where, and by whom, are the duties or customs collected?