"Self-regulative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Port Bill to Jay's Treaty was therefore a period of transition from entire colonial dependence, under complete regulation of all commercial intercourse by the mother country, to that of national commercial power, self-regulative and efficient, through the adoption of the Constitution. Upon this followed international influence, the growing importance of which Great Britain finally recognized by formal concessions, hitherto refused or evaded. During these years the policy ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan |
