#NowReading Sea Power in Relation to the War of 1812 (1905) by Alfred Thayer Mahan
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From John Adams to James Bowdoin, 9 May 1786
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We’re calling it... comparative advantage.
“It appears to the writer that those who doubt [the Navigation Act’s] effect in this respect allow their convictions of the strength of economical forces to blind them to the power of unremitting legislative action.” - A. T. Mahan
From John Adams to John Jay, 5 November 1785
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John Adams to John Jay, 9 March 1785
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From John Adams to Jonathan Jackson, 1 October 1785
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From George Washington to David Stuart, 1 July 1787
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Thomas Jefferson. III. Final State of the Report on Commerce, [16 December 1793]
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Mahan: After seven years of independence, out of a total of $20,000,000 imports to the 🇺🇸, over $15,000,000 were from dominions of 🇬🇧… The commercial dependence is evident; it had rather increased than diminished since the Peace.
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From John Adams to John Jay, 21 October 1785
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Observations on the Commerce of the American States (1784)

John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield
From John Adams to Secretary John Jay. Grosvenor Square, Westminster, 6 August, 1785.
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From John Adams to John Jay, 19 July 1785
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Thomas Jefferson. III. Final State of the Report on Commerce, [16 December 1793]
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Gouverneur Morris to Edmund Randolph. May 31, 1794.
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quoted from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey
To James Madison from James Monroe, 23 December 1805
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