Why did not our government retaliate by imposing like duties upon
British goods and vessels?
Sec.7. What are duties designed to encourage home manufactures called?
Sec.8. Show, by example, the operation and effect of a protective duty.
Sec.9. By what other power may this object be partially effected? Show how.
Sec.10. Why, then, was not one of these powers sufficient?
Sec.11. Show, by example, why the free importation of foreign goods and
direct taxation are not deemed the better policy.
Sec.13. How early, and how, was domestic industry encouraged? What rendered
high duties for a time unnecessary?
Sec.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?
Sec.15. Where, and by whom, are the duties or customs collected?
Chapter XXXIII.
Sec.1. What is _navigation_?
Sec.2. What is _tunnage_? _Tunnage duties_? For what purpose were these
duties laid? Why were they called _discriminating_ duties?
Sec.3. What has been their effect? What has caused their discontinuance?
Sec.4. How are vessels registered?
Sec.5. What is a _manifest_? A _clearance_?
Sec.6. At whose request are passports furnished to vessels? What is a
_passport_? By whom given?
Sec.7. How is the safety of passengers and crew provided for?
Sec.8. Define _quarantine_. What has congress enacted in relation to
quarantines?
Sec.9. Why was power given to congress to regulate _internal_ commerce, or
commerce among the states?
Sec.10. Why the power to regulate commerce with the Indian tribes?
Chapter XXXIV.
Sec.1. What were the disqualifications of aliens by the common law? Why are
these disqualifications deemed proper?
Sec.2. When ought they to be removed? Why should the rule of naturalization
be uniform?
Sec.3. Describe the manner in which an alien is naturalized.
Sec.4. How do alien minors become citizens?
Sec.5. What is a _bankrupt_? A bankrupt law? What is the object of such
laws?
Sec.6. Why is the power to pass them given to congress? Why should they be
uniform?
Sec.7. Why is the power to coin money and regulate its value given to
congress? What change in the system of reckoning has been effected?
Sec.8. At what places is money coined? What is _bullion_?
Sec.9. Why is the power to fix the standard of weights and m
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