The people thus supported the policy of Jackson--no United States Bank and no Protective Tariff.
The whigs were in favor of a protective tariff, and a general system of internal improvements; the democrats opposed these.
A protective tariff, known as the "American System," reached its height.
Footnote: A protective tariff is a duty imposed on imported goods for the purpose of encouraging their manufacture at home.
Other expedients were devised to take money out of the Treasury and prevent its coming in from any other source than the protective tariff.
It was neither a protective tariff nor a revenue tariff, but a mongrel affair made up of shreds and patches furnished here and there by Democratic Members to suit their local constituencies.
The Republican party affirms that it is for a protective tariff.
My reply to the President's message is the best exposition I have made as to the principles and details of a protective tariff.
Discuss the contention that a protective tariff by helping to keep out imports of foreign goods tends to maintain a favorable balance of trade.
Might conditions be such that A could with advantage to itself exact a protective tariff?
Could B equalize conditions of production by enacting a protective tariffon the products of the two islands?
Adams's inaugural address and first message outlined the Whig policy as favoring a protective tariff, internal improvements, and a free construction of the Constitution generally.
Among the political theories to which Clay clung most closely, only the belief in a bank ranked higher in his estimation than his devotion to a protective tariff.
If he lives under a protective tariff, the workman asks himself of what use is it to exclude the products of cheap labour if the cheap labourer be allowed to enter the country and compete with him on the spot.
Threats and counter-threats of Disunion were made on either hand by the opponents and advocates of Slavery-extension through annexation; nor was it less agitated on the subject of a Protective Tariff.
A protective tariff is a schedule of import duties so arranged as to give appreciably more favorable conditions to some domestic industries than they would enjoy with free trade.
A leading argument in favor of a protective tariff is that by encouraging an excess of exports it maintains a favorable balance of trade.
The manufacturer sees clearly the benefits that will come to his factory from a protective tariff, but before he can get it he must convince many others that they too will gain.
Randall was one of the prominent Democrats of his day; but strange to say he favored a protective tariff.
The Republicans were united in advocating such a protective tariff as would enable the mills and factories to open, thereby affording employment and restoring prosperity.
Instantly the public thought turned to a protective tariff, not only to save the manufactures, but as a retributive measure against England.
In 1816, a protective tariff in the House gained sixty-three Northern votes to fourteen against it.
Hamilton also drew up an exhaustive report on the sources and conditions of American manufactures, with a strong plea for the encouragement, by a protective tariff, of such industries as had already been established.
On May 18 another private member's motion came on; which stated that the House, believing a protective tariff on food burdensome to the people, welcomes the declaration that the government is opposed to it.
Then came, on March 9, a private member's motion to the effect that the House expresses its condemnation of the continual agitation in favour of a protective tariff encouraged by the ministers.
We have had in our history several experiences of the contrasted effects of a revenue and of a protective tariff, but this generation has not felt them, and the experience of one generation is not highly instructive to the next.
It is quite possible, I am sure, to effect the necessary reduction in our revenues without breaking down our protective tariff or seriously injuring any domestic industry.
It is not my purpose to renew here the argument in favor of a protective tariff.
South Carolina's nullification and secession acts and resolves in 1832 were on the ground of the unconstitutionality of a protective tariff.
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