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A phrase used to express the policy of protection to home industries by means of duties on imports; applied by Henry Clay to his scheme for protective duties and internal improvements, which resulted in the enactment of the tariff bill of 1824. See free trade; protection.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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