The Political Writings of Rufus ChoateAn orator of great renown, a congressman, senator, and colleague of Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate was a strong proponent of protective tariffs to assist domestic industry. |
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... course is clear : a consistent policy of tariff protection.11 The imperative of defending , through appropriate federal measures , the country's manufacturing base was simply a corollary of Choate's insistence on the centrality of the ...
... course is clear : a consistent policy of tariff protection.11 The imperative of defending , through appropriate federal measures , the country's manufacturing base was simply a corollary of Choate's insistence on the centrality of the ...
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... course of reading appropriate to a young man about to study law , Choate had this " Aristotle's Politics , and all of Edmund Burke's works , and all of Cicero's works , would form an admirable course of reading , ' a library of ...
... course of reading appropriate to a young man about to study law , Choate had this " Aristotle's Politics , and all of Edmund Burke's works , and all of Cicero's works , would form an admirable course of reading , ' a library of ...
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... course of his career , but it was during his work on an 1836 case before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts that he established himself on the issue . An organization called the Boston Female Anti - Slavery Society had brought before ...
... course of his career , but it was during his work on an 1836 case before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts that he established himself on the issue . An organization called the Boston Female Anti - Slavery Society had brought before ...
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... course , in his famous Seventh of March speech in 1850 , had argued among other things that the extremism of aboli- tionist agitation had had the opposite of its intended effect . Indeed there can be little question that the ...
... course , in his famous Seventh of March speech in 1850 , had argued among other things that the extremism of aboli- tionist agitation had had the opposite of its intended effect . Indeed there can be little question that the ...
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... course , had excori- ated the French revolutionaries for violently attempting to replace the legiti- mately constituted government of Louis XVI ( a monarch whose tendencies . were , in fact , moderately in the direction of reform ) ...
... course , had excori- ated the French revolutionaries for violently attempting to replace the legiti- mately constituted government of Louis XVI ( a monarch whose tendencies . were , in fact , moderately in the direction of reform ) ...
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