If his arguments are so good, why didn’t they voice them before the court? If the laws he cites are so applicable, why not? Whatever happened to these laws? Were they repealed? Did the court strike them down?
Read post #37. Theses “laws” were/are not what Spitzer said they were.
They did not apply to the general intrastate population only the militia & sailors & licence seeking ship owners leaving their State to trade with other States.
Among other issues was also the fact that the most agrevise of theses acts the tax upon sailors which in this case given the specific nature of their work is more of an interstate tariff. Was proposed, passed and signed by the same congress who are responsible for the similarly intrusive alien & sedition acts.
The Federalist in congress as time went by gave less and less concern to the rights of the people.