With respect to commerce we may ask: “Will the United Nations in our lifetime emulate the United States in Washington’s?” We can point to Chief Justice Marshall’s words: “The power over commerce was one of the primary objects for which the people of the United States adopted their government.” Will some future “Marshall” some day say: “The power over commerce was one of the primary means by which the people of the world developed world government.”?
Benton Mackaye, “Toward Global Law” (first published in The Survey, Vol. LXXXVII, No. 6. June, 1951) in From Geography to Geotechnics (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1968), 103.
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