TARIFFS: First Debate was Power, Not Trade
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- Tenth Amendment Center
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- Wed 27 Aug 2025
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- https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/08/tariffs-first-debate-was-power-not-trade/
Hamilton vs Madison and Jefferson. The first great economic debate under the Constitution was about tariffs, and it actually started under the Articles of Confederation. But the debate wasn’t about protectionism vs free trade. It was dueling forms of government intervention.
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James Madison – Import and Tonnage Duties (8 Apr 1789)
Journals of the Continental Congress (18 June 1783)
Journals of the Continental Congress (15 Feb 1786)
“Impost Begat Convention” – Albany and New York Confront the Ratification of the Constitution
Phillip W. Magness – The Problem of the Tariff in American Economic History, 1787–1934
James Madison – Import and Tonnage Duties (9 Apr 1789)
James Madison – Letter to Edmund Pendleton (19 Apr 1789)
Thomas Tudor Tucker (SC) – Duties on Imports (21 Apr 1789)
John Lawrence (NY) – Duties on Imports (21 Apr 1789)
Madison at the First Session of the First Federal Congress 1789
Tariff Act of 1789 (4 July 1789)
Alexander Hamilton – Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit (9 Jan 1790)
Tariff Act of 1790 (10 Aug 1790)
Alexander Hamilton – Report on the Subject of Manufactures (5 Dec 1791)
Tariff Act of 1792 (2 May 1792)
Thomas Jefferson – Final State of the Report on Commerce (16 Dec 1793)
Report on Commerce (Editorial Note)
Alexander Hamilton – Letter to George Washington (14 Apr 1794)
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