The Constitution’s Negative Effects on Free Trade

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11/11/2024 Benjamin Seevers

While the US Constitution made the US a large free trade zone, prohibiting states from erecting trade barriers against each other, it also empowered the central government to erect tariffs on goods imported from outside the country.

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