Its purpose was to generate revenue for the federal government (to run the government and to pay the interest on its debt), and also to act as a protective barrier around newly starting domestic industries. An import tax set by tariff rates was collected by treasury agents before goods could be unloaded at U.S. ports.
The dominant religion in Western Europe is Christianity.
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he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.
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