Republican (constitutionalist) President Jefferson signs the Embargo Act of 1807, prohibiting united States merchant vessels from docking at the ports of nations participating in the Napoleonic Wars.
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Article I, Section 8 [Clause 3]
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References:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe, (New York: Crown Forum, 2006), 63.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 64.
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