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This excerpt draws from lecture notes taken by George Calvert in what appears to be John Minor's Junior Law class given during the 1857-1858 academic year discussing the Federalist. In this section, Minor enumerates the Constitutional powers given to the federal government including prospective power to abolish the slave trade.
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"2c: Regulation of intercourse with foreign nations
- To make treaties
- To send & receive ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls
- To define and punish piracies and offences committed on the high seas and offences [?] the law of nations
- To regulate foreign commerce, including power prospectively to prohibit the slave trade"
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