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To: Amendment10

I’m afraid I’m not following your logic. A canal is not a post road insomuch that it is not even a road.

As for the power of the bank I dont even see how that is related to the subject whatsoever.

A owning and running a bank is not after all required for or really even related to a post road.


19 posted on 11/28/2014 3:03:08 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: Monorprise; All
"A canal is not a post road insomuch that it is not even a road."

Thank you for you patience with this discussion.

No, a canal is not a post road. But what they have in common is that they are both ways to move freight, therefore useful for commerce.

And speaking of commerce, commerce is how post roads and canals relate to the bank that Jefferson was talking about. This is because some of the Con-Con delegates didn’t want a national bank and feared that Congress could use its power to build canals as an excuse to establish a national bank.

20 posted on 11/28/2014 4:02:36 PM PST by Amendment10
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