The Federalist Papers · Federalist No. 4 · paragraph 5

With France and with Britain we are rivals in the fisheries, and can supply their markets cheaper than they can themselves, notwithstanding any efforts to prevent it by bounties on their own or duties on foreign fish.

Publius · Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison · 1787–1788
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